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Re: GCC 3.1 Ada status for various platforms
Andreas Schwab writes:
> You actually need only one good GNAT binary to start with. With this one
> you can build cross compilers for the other platforms where bootstrapping
> is more difficult, from which you can build native compilers that are
> finally used for bootstrapping. That's how I built Ada compilers for our
> distribution (starting with i386 as cross host, then ia64, alpha and ppc).
Unfortunately, this procedure is not adequately documented as far as I
know, and -- having no experience with cross compilers -- it was easier for
me to start from (even older) binary distributions for the various
platforms involved.
Rainer