Re: Status of the GNAT Ada compiler

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>]

Hi Luke, in order to be able to help you web need
some information:

- what is your OS
- what is your OS installed Ada compiler
- what are you typing in exactly
- how does it fail exactly

I personaly use SuSE 9.1 on both x86 and x86_64 cpus,
the distribution comes with packages gnat and gnat-runtime, if you
install them from YaST then you can compile
without any problem GCC 3.4.x and GCC from current CVS
by following the GCC website instructions.

Sincerely,

Laurent

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 01:01, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just tried to build GCC-3.4.3 only for the Ada compiler, it won't
> even configure, leaving out the --enable-languages=ada flag doesn't
> bring the compiler in. I've tried going back to 3.4.2 and 3.4.1, same
> problems.
> 
> I've just read through the ml archives and there is a thread about the
> contribution to the Ada compiler already. Has Robert Dewar given any
> info on the discussions he was going to hold at AdaCore? I can't see it
> on the list.
> 
> I've asked before, but when can we expect to see a new free version of
> GNAT that includes *all* of the tools (there is
> http://gnat-asis.sourceforge.net)? It's been around 9 years since 3.15p
> and I haven't been able to build a 2.8.0 compiler for years (well I
> haven't tried with GCC-2.95.x).
> 
> I can see that there are Ada programmers (besides myself) who need an
> Ada compiler, yet we're not getting anywhere (or don't seem to be). I
> can see this either being forked, or a new compiler being written to
> replace GNAT, which I don't relish the thought of, to be honest.
> 
> Luke.
> 
> 
>