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Re: Ada policy

From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
To: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:01:14 +0200
Subject: Re: Ada policy
References: <10408301022.AA24170@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu><1093863754.17130.27.camel@pc.site><20040830090622.GD30497@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz><1093888894.17130.45.camel@pc.site> <87zn4czaql.fsf@deneb.enyo.de><1093896230.17130.95.camel@pc.site> <87657074by.fsf@codesourcery.com><m2vfezht9z.fsf@greed.local>

* Geoffrey Keating:

> 2. Since the Ada compiler and tools must be installed in binary form
>    on the other system (because there is no compiler to build it from
>    source), they must be fully relocatable, that is they must be able to
>    be installed in any location; because the person doing the
>    installation may not be able (or willing) to write it to /usr/local
>    or wherever it was originally built for.  (I know the C compilers
>    already do this, I am not sure if it really works for Ada).

The official GNAT 3.15p distributions are fully relocatable on
GNU/Linux and Solaris (I haven't checked Windows).  I haven't tried
this with FSF releases, though.

References:
- Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)
  - From: Laurent GUERBY
- Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)
  - From: Laurent GUERBY
- Re: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29)
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Ada policy (was: GCC 3.5 Status (2004-08-29))
  - From: Laurent GUERBY
- Re: Ada policy
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: Ada policy
  - From: Geoffrey Keating

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