Re: GNAT for Linux/Alpha (Was: Gnat-Glade 3.2)

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
>> One big plus about the SuSE support of GNAT, is that they have
>> the only publically available binaries for GNAT on the Alpha
>> platform that I know of.
> 
> Your hint got me to search for RPM packages for Linux/Alpha with GNAT. I 
> actually found both SuSE and Red Hat packages.

I wasn't aware that Red Hat even supported Alpha. Is this true?
I must admit that I didn't look too hard, but I could only find
refs to i386 or higher.

>> I was able to install and successfully run their GCC-3.1 (with Ada) RPMs
>> on my recent Debian Alpha platform.
> 
> I have managed to install "cpp-3.1-11", "gcc-3.1-11", "gnat-3.1-11" and 
> "libgcc-3.1-11" on my SuSE system, but the compiler doesn't quite work:
> 
> ------------------
> gcc -c -I../../Pakker/Matematik -I../../Pakker/OS -I../../Pakker/Strenge 
> -gnatv
> 
> GNAT 5.00w (20010924) Copyright 1992-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Compiling: merge.adb (source file time stamp: 2003-01-28 16:16:17)
>  35 lines: No errors
> /tmp/ccF1GoLD.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccF1GoLD.s:12: Error: Cannot use !gpdisp!1 with ldah
...
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Jacob

I didn't have to do this (the current version of Debian must have the
correct version), but it sounds like you need to also upgrade your
binutils (of which the assembler is a part). However, in my case
I had nothing to loose (I could afford to mess up my Debian install). So
be aware that installing a new binutils package may break some other
things that you currently depend upon (I cannot assess that).  So I
suppose that the standard "backup disclaimer" applies ;-)

I don't remember how I found it, but I used some sort of "rpm find" site.
The rpmfind.net looks different than the one I used, and I cannot seem
to find the one I used at the moment. But there must be a hundred
of "rpm find" types of sites out there, that help in this regard.
SuSE lists the Alpha distribution under a axp directory name, IIRC.

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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