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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