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Re: ADA frontend?
- To: joel at OARcorp dot com
- Subject: Re: ADA frontend?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 13:42:45 -0600
- cc: Samuel Tardieu <sam at ada dot eu dot org>, Jamie Lokier <egcs at tantalophile dot demon dot co dot uk>, alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk, Linux-Egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980906203715.26730D-100000@oar3remote.oarcorp.com>you write:
> On 6 Sep 1998, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>
> > IMO, but I couldn't find any reason to do this since cross-compiling
> > with GCC (and GNAT) is really easy and needs to be done only once per
> > platform.
>
> The biggest problem on many "marginally supported" hosts is that the
> binary for gnat gets out of date. Isn't even the Linux x86 gnat 3.10p
> binary suffering from this?
Yup. I found this out myself when I wanted to built Ada on my
i686-pc-linux-gnu box. The provided binaries would not work.
Luckily I'm familiar enough with gcc that I could pick up the various
pieces I needed from the binary dist, combine them with my existing
glibc2 egcs build and make them work. Thus avoiding have to build
ada as a cross compiler :-)
jeff