From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,de4046858a88bacb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!217.73.144.45.MISMATCH!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed2.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!not-for-mail From: Tero Koskinen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: OpenBSD and Ada (was: Re: Ada OS) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:49:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20071226214915.f6847265.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ip154.otanner14.opintanner.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.cc.tut.fi 1198698555 1247 195.148.53.154 (26 Dec 2007 19:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tut.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:49:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 2.4.5 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-unknown-openbsd4.2) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19025 Date: 2007-12-26T21:49:15+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:41:54 GMT Paul wrote: > What I would like to know though, are there many Ada developers who use > OpenBSD? I use almost(1) exclusively OpenBSD and Ada and I think I have seen something like 4 other people using OpenBSD and Ada more or less actively. Hardest part of that combination is to get fully featured GNAT built and running. GCC in the OpenBSD ports tree has Ada support but lacks tasking and some other features. It can be used for bootstrapping, but for better support you need to use unofficial ports (2,3). (1) My laptop dual boots XP (with ObjectAda Special Ed.) and OpenBSD (GNAT). (2) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=117679065130354&w=2 (3) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=119851255408925&w=2 -- Tero Koskinen - http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/