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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e91a32061bde112 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT Date: 2000/01/28 Message-ID: <38912124.FE6B6AEF@telepath.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578618901 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <862sv5$sug$1@pirates.Armstrong.EDU> <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86k8r6$alp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86kpbu$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <877lgxuquu.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <86mqi6$6dd$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86p6c1$vo5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3890DC4E.581F6A5@telepath.com> <874sbygbk2.fsf@think.mihalis.net> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 949035049 216.14.8.51 (Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:50:49 EST) Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:50:49 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Chris Morgan wrote: > Ted Dennison writes: > > > Good point. I consider Emacs a quality product, but have you ever tried to > > compile it from sources? I've done it 3 times now, and I'd take putting > > together a 50 pice swing-set over that any day. > > It depends on the tools you have around. Compiling it on > out-of-the-box Solaris is probably still not that nice, but once I put > the stuff onto Solaris I know I'm going to need anyway, it's as easy Yeah. As I remember the last time I had to do it for a SunOS box (admittedly over 5 years ago), I first ended up having to compile gcc from sources. And of course there's always the usual assortment of #ifdefs and #defines that aren't quite right and have to be hacked. Yuk. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com Work - mailto:dennison@ssd.fsi.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591