Re: GNAT for an unsupported Unix-system?

["Tor-Einar Jarnbjo" <bjote@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

On 24-Nov-97 08:06:08, Robert Dewar wrote in comp.lang.ada:
>Tor-Einar says

><<Ok, I'll try this. But, the GNAT-port for AmigaOS is version 2.06, so
>do you know if any of the newest versions of GNAT will compile with
>this old version, or do I have to get the older sources and do a step-
>by-step upgrade. It says in the installation-guides, that it's only
>guaranteed that GNAT will compile with the last version of GNAT, but
>I might have luck, or not.
>>>

>There is no possible hope of compiling the latest version of GNAT with
>2.06. There are features that are simply not implemented that far back.
>Indeed it is quite unusual that one can compile GNAT other than with
>the previous version.

>So if there is no more up to date AmigoOS port, that approach will not
>work (are you sure there is no more recent Amiga port? I don't keep
>track of them, but my memory was of a more recent port than that.

Well, at least 2.06 is the only version on Aminet and Geek-Gadgets
(which are the only distribution-sites I could think of having GNAT).

I've tried 2.06 and it doesn't seem to be too stable. It might be 
because I have a 68060-processor, and I've read that some older versions
of gcc for AmigaOS produced code which might cause problems on the
68060s. Perhaps GNAT 2.06 was compiled with one of them.

Tor-Einar

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