Ada policy
Florian Weimer
fw@deneb.enyo.de
Tue Aug 31 22:11:00 GMT 2004
* 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.
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