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docs/build: mention gcc/gnat version match issue 

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>
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The following document describes how `lbmk` works, and how you can make changes
to it: [libreboot maintenance manual](../maintain/)
Debian Trixie/Sid
=================
Debian Trixie, the testing release as of 3 January 2025, and Debian Sid,
provide `gnat` and `gcc` as you expect, but `gnat` resolves to `gnat-13` and
installs `gcc-13` as a dependency, while `gcc` resolves to `gcc-14` and other
toolchain components correspond to this version.
The GCC/GNAT versions need to match during build time, so Libreboot's build
system hacks the `PATH` environmental variable, setting up symlinks, matching
GNAT to GCC or GNAT to GCC. When you run `./mk dependencies debian`, you get
GNAT 13 and GCC 14. This seems to make most boards compile; in our testing, the
KGPE-D16 board failed to compile in this configuration. This PATH hack is only
done for compiling the coreboot crossgcc toolchain, and nothing else; after that,
coreboot's toolchain is used.
For better reliability, you should, after running the dependencies script,
remove `gnat` and install `gnat-14` instead, which is available on this day
of 3 December 2025, but currently marked experimental. When you install
GNAT 14, GNAT 13 is removed but `gnat` (in `PATH`) still won't resolve to
anything. Libreboot *still* accomodates this, detecting and matching the GCC
and GNAT versions, which would in this instance match version 14 between them,
so that `gnat` and `gcc` are both in PATH at build time, resolving to v14.x.
GNAT is used by coreboot, because some of the Intel graphics devices are
initialised natively, with code written in Ada spark (called `libgfxinit`).
MIPS cross compiler
===================

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Наступний документ описує те, як працює `lbmk`, і як ви можете робити зміни
до нього: [керівництво обслуговування libreboot](../maintain/)
Debian Trixie/Sid
=================
Debian Trixie, the testing release as of 3 January 2025, and Debian Sid,
provide `gnat` and `gcc` as you expect, but `gnat` resolves to `gnat-13` and
installs `gcc-13` as a dependency, while `gcc` resolves to `gcc-14` and other
toolchain components correspond to this version.
The GCC/GNAT versions need to match during build time, so Libreboot's build
system hacks the `PATH` environmental variable, setting up symlinks, matching
GNAT to GCC or GNAT to GCC. When you run `./mk dependencies debian`, you get
GNAT 13 and GCC 14. This seems to make most boards compile; in our testing, the
KGPE-D16 board failed to compile in this configuration. This PATH hack is only
done for compiling the coreboot crossgcc toolchain, and nothing else; after that,
coreboot's toolchain is used.
For better reliability, you should, after running the dependencies script,
remove `gnat` and install `gnat-14` instead, which is available on this day
of 3 December 2025, but currently marked experimental. When you install
GNAT 14, GNAT 13 is removed but `gnat` (in `PATH`) still won't resolve to
anything. Libreboot *still* accomodates this, detecting and matching the GCC
and GNAT versions, which would in this instance match version 14 between them,
so that `gnat` and `gcc` are both in PATH at build time, resolving to v14.x.
GNAT is used by coreboot, because some of the Intel graphics devices are
initialised natively, with code written in Ada spark (called `libgfxinit`).
MIPS cross compiler
===================