Re: where is a gnat 3.11 rpm for linux

[Juergen Pfeifer <juergen.pfeifer@gmx.net>]

"Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:
> 
> Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> > "Mike Dimmick" <mike@dimmick.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > > My reasoning is this:  my Linux system runs RedHat 5.2, which is
> > > glibc-2.0.  I don't trust the new kernel 2.2 releases at all.  Not an
> > > inch.  I'm providing services to other people on our LAN on this server,
> > > so I'm trying to get as little down time as possible.  But I need to
> > > ensure that any Ada programs I write will truly cross-compile to a
> > > Unix-like machine before I submit them.
> >
> > You can always keep 3.12p and glibc 2.0 if you want to.  Or you can
> > hire someone who ports future GNAT versions for you.  Or perhaps the
> > "official" ACT version works for you.
> 
> Since he already has a version running, can't he just download the source (or
> RPM sources) for any new versions that come out, and build them on his own
> system?  Or did some GNAT internal code have to change with the library
> change?
> 
Yes, as it looks now, the RPMs for 3.13p can be bootstraped with the RPMs for
3.12p on a glibc-2.0 system. The reason that I'll drop support for the glibc-2.0
based systems is, that it just takes me too much buildtime and resources to
maintain it and some of the coming exciting new stuff like jgnat should really
be used only on glibc-2.1 because java2 will only run on that with native thread
support.

J�rgen