It would be good if the macro GNAT_arches could be defined in redhat-rpm-config so that we don't have to repeat the list of architectures in lots of Ada packages. It seems to be customary to put each macro of this kind in its own file in /etc/rpm, so I request that /etc/rpm/macros.gnat-srpm be added. Then there's the question of who will keep this macro up-to-date. Would you mind making me a co-maintainer so that I can adjust it if needed? The GCC maintainers also ought to be able to update the macro as it's them who decide what architectures to build GNAT on.
Created attachment 550961 [details] I would like this file to be added.
Well, it isn't that much my decision which architectures include Ada, I think upstream GCC ought to support Ada on arm and does on s390{,x} and sparc*. The thing is that the secondary architecture maintainers need to be prepared to do the initial work, when they do it, they can just tell me and I can enable it in gcc.spec. Because gnat needs a previous (and not too old) version of gnat installed first to build. So, if gcc-gnat isn't included on some architecture, somebody needs to by hand in mock or whatever first install some gnat binaries (either starting from a cross-compiler, or by taking binaries from other distro etc.), then build hacked up gcc rpm (which enables build_gnat but doesn't require it and has the binaries just inserted into the buildroot), then finally for these hand made gcc-gnat etc. packages force them temporarily into the koji buildroots and finally build it for real.
OK, maybe it should be the secondary architecture maintainers' job to keep the macro up-to-date.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
Hum, this has been added ages ago but updating the bug forgotten: +* Wed Feb 22 2012 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> - 9.1.0-27 +- add GNAT arch definitions CLOSED -> RAWHIDE as that where it originally landed, but %GNAT_arches is present in all current Fedora versions (>= 17)