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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be1b639cfc6f382e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-04 13:57:30 PST Message-ID: <3E8DFF10.4070609@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for Linux/Alpha References: <6a90b886.0304010720.56794451@posting.google.com> <3E8B172B.2020500@cogeco.ca> <3E8C5896.900@crs4.it> <3E8C6E79.2060604@cogeco.ca> <3E8D3CCE.7030101@crs4.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:54:24 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1049493266 198.96.47.195 (Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:54:26 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:54:26 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35940 Date: 2003-04-04T16:54:24-05:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > 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. Sorry to hear that, though I cannot say I am surprised. There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of demand there. > I found them by searching for > "gnat", "alpha" and "rpm" on Google and noticed that I could use the web > site for more precise queries (didn't have any > luck with rpmfind). Yes, rpmseek.com was the one I used. I found that to be very useful here. I'll bookmark it here, before I forget it again ;-) >> 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) It seems that an Alpha owner needs a bit of "scrounger" in them ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg