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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 18:13:18 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • Ludovic Courtès
   for gnat, long term, one would have to maintain a chain of gnat versions, because each version of gnat normally requires at least the previous version to build. I'm not aware of bootstrap paths for the earliest links in the chain, alas.
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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 18:13:20 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     My answer was: start with the pragmatic approach, which is to package a binary provided by upstream or Debian, etc., and use it to build the “final” Gnat (probably this would go in a channel like Guix-Science rather than in Guix proper).

     And then, look for alternative Ada implementations or historical chains that might allow Gnat to be built from source, and start a discussion with the community.

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 18:13:21 JST Ludovic Courtès

     Yesterday I met several people who asked me about the status of #Gnat (Ada) in #Guix. There were aware of bootstrapping issues with it but weren’t sure where to go from here.