Re: GNAT for Linux/Alpha

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> 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.

Neither does SuSE (except for SuSE 7.1 for a few months more), but the 
RPM packages seem to be there anyway.  I found them by searching for 
"gnat", "alpha" and "rpm" on Google and noticed that I could use the web 
site <http://rpmseek.com/> for more precise queries (didn't have any 
luck with rpmfind).

> 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 ;-)

Thanks.  I will try that.  And I will be careful.

Greetings,

Jacob (who hasn't dropped SuSE on his Alpha yet)
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