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From: Matthew Graybosch <matthew@starbreaker.net>
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Subject: Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 22:58:22 -0500
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On 2 Jan 2002 03:31:28 GMT
Gerhard H�ring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> wrote:

> Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
> >  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on
> >  Ada. I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 
> 
> Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)

Thanks. I figure that it's bad enough that I have to work on Windows (using
Visual Basic, no less). I'd have to insane to want to deal with Windows at
home. Besides, I like Unix. 
> Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
> report for it.

I wonder if I should send a message to the port maintainer as well... I'll
do it if he forgets the docs in the next version.

> The file you're looking for is here:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/gnat-3.13p-docs.tar.gz
> 
> Just unpack it anywhere you like.

It's in the pipe now. Thanks.

> Btw. "gnatmake someprogram.adb" compiles the program to an executable
> called "someprogram". "gnatmake -c" only creates an object file.

*smacks forehead* So *that's* where I fouled up. I thought I had to manually
invoke gnatbind and gnatlink on the *.ali file. Thanks again.

Hey, the last line in your sig is LISP code, isn't it?

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