Re: [A bit OT] Problems with GNAT 3.11p

[the middleman <charles.dand@yukyonline.co.yuky>]

I agree with you. I am guilty of not reading the documentation! And i'd
say that NG's are getting to a sad state where people just ask questions
without looking into it much themselves. Normally I would do a bit more
work myself but on this occason I think I have an good excuse
(excueses.....excuses!!). I had been up all night messing around with 3D
on my Voodoo Banshee (and I'm sure those of you who have tried to get
one of those to work with linux will agree, it can get very
frustrating). Once I had succeded with that I moved on to installing
GNAT. when I got these problems I couldn't be bothered reading anything
so I just posted a question. Yes I know it's lazy but thats just the
some of us are sometimes. 

Just to say that I am guilty thats all.

P.S. I know i should have read the documenation before even trying to
install it but to be honest I don't think that many people do that. 

P.P.S Good news that GNAT 3.12p is out soon.
-- 
ByeZeeBye
the middleman
Chuck(les)


Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <37EC5429.4328708B@yukyonline.co.yuky>,
>   the middleman <charles.dand@yukyonline.co.yuky> wrote:
> > I've got GNAT 3.11p on linux and I seem to have some problems
> with my
> > programs.
> > I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a PII 300 Mhz.
> >
> > I installed GNAT using option 2 in the doconfig program.
> 
> It is always surprising how few people read the documentation.
> The readme file is of course quite clear that the version in
> question is for an earlier version of RedHat, and yet people
> keep getting stuck on this. I sometimes wonder if the ease of
> posting questions to thousands of people on the web has resulted
> in people being even less willing to read documentation than
> before -- it sure seems that way.
> 
> Anyway, this is certainly an FAQ, the version of GNAT you picked
> up does not support Redhat version 5.
> 
> There are some adaptations of 3.11p available that do support
> Redhat 6, but in any case you might want to wait, we expect
> 3.12p to be released for Linux early next week (as will usually
> be our procedure in the future, the Linux version will get
> released first, followed by other versions as they get built,
> which should be reasonably fast).
> 
> Robert Dewar
> Ada Core Technologies
> 
> P.S. 3.12p will be RH 6 compatible
> 
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