gnat for BSDi?

gnat for BSDi?

[Jeff Hightower]

I have experimentally developed several large applications for use on
our
local web server.  Unfortionately we recently changed our web server
from a
Sun-OS Box to a BSDi box.  Basically I am curious if there is a version
of the Ada compiler which will run under BSDi.

It would be easier if replys could come to me personally via e-mail as I
am
not a regular reader of this group.  ( Although maybe I should be :-) )
I really do appreciate any expert advice that I am given.

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Re: gnat for BSDi?

[Jeff Hightower]

Jeff Hightower wrote:
> 
> I have experimentally developed several large applications for use on
> our
> local web server.  Unfortionately we recently changed our web server
> from a
> Sun-OS Box to a BSDi box.  Basically I am curious if there is a version
> of the Ada compiler which will run under BSDi.
> 
> It would be easier if replys could come to me personally via e-mail as I
> am
> not a regular reader of this group.  ( Although maybe I should be :-) )
> I really do appreciate any expert advice that I am given.
> 
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jeff Hightower                        Undergraduate Computer Science
> hightowj@cs.colorado.edu              University of Colorado, Boulder
> http://ugrad-www.cs.colorado.edu/~hightowj/
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It has been pointed out that I neglected to mention my machine type when
posting this question.  My BSDi runs on an x86 machine.  Sorry for the
incoherency of the question as it were.

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Jeff Hightower                        Undergraduate Computer Science
hightowj@cs.colorado.edu              University of Colorado, Boulder
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Re: gnat for BSDi?

[Robert Dewar]

what is the relation of NetBSD FreeBSD and BSDi, certainly GNAT ports
exist for the first two ...

Re: gnat for BSDi?

[Geert Bosch]

Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
   what is the relation of NetBSD FreeBSD and BSDi, certainly GNAT ports
   exist for the first two ...

Their relation is that they all are slightly different from OpenBSD.
Basically all these OS-es are based on the BSD 4.4 (lite) sources from
UCB. BSDi is a commercial product, the others are free. They have a
less restrictive license than GPL however. NetBSD is available on several
hardware platforms, FreeBSD is Intel only. OpenBSD is the newest
variant, created because some people had different opinions than the
NetBSD people.

Anyway, this description is too short to be precise, but I want to
avoid comparing religions. This is actually more appriopriate to
the comp.unix.misc or comp.unix.bsd.* groups. I have redirected
followups to comp.unix.misc.

Regards,
   Geert

Re: gnat for BSDi?

[Jesus M. Gonzalez]

geert@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) writes:

> 
> Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
>    what is the relation of NetBSD FreeBSD and BSDi, certainly GNAT ports
>    exist for the first two ...
> 
> Their relation is that they all are slightly different from OpenBSD.
> Basically all these OS-es are based on the BSD 4.4 (lite) sources from
> UCB. BSDi is a commercial product, the others are free. They have a
> less restrictive license than GPL however. NetBSD is available on several
> hardware platforms, FreeBSD is Intel only. OpenBSD is the newest
> variant, created because some people had different opinions than the
> NetBSD people.
> 
> Anyway, this description is too short to be precise, but I want to
> avoid comparing religions. This is actually more appriopriate to
> the comp.unix.misc or comp.unix.bsd.* groups. I have redirected
> followups to comp.unix.misc.

	I also don't want to enter any religious war, but maybe
some more information may be interesting to *BSD potential
users of Gnat. As far as I know, there are versions of Gnat
for NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/ARM, and for FreeBSD (no tasking yet).
Since OpenBSD is capable of running NetBSD executables, OpenBSD
also counts as `ported platform'.

	The FreeBSD port has been done by cross-compiling from
SunOS, AFAIK, and the process doesn't seem to be that complex. It
sould be of similar complexity getting a BSDI compiler from a 
SunOS (or in fact any other Unix) version. In fact, it should be
easier, since the documentation of the FreeBSD porter (Daniel M. Eischen)
is available

		Jesus.

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