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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..97a4a552 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Porting GNAT"]] + +The GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) isn't available for the Hurd so far. There are +also a number of other Debian packages depending on GNAT, and thus not +buildable on the Hurd. + +The goal of this project is getting GNAT fully working in Debian GNU/Hurd. It +requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT, and maybe +fixing a few other problems. Good knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd +knowledge will have to be acquired while working on the project. + +Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) + +Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing GNAT from working on the Hurd. |