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: 103376,2cb54c327a92d5fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-29 00:41:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!news.crs4.it!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Which GCC compiler for Linux-GNAT Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:59:56 +0200 Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Message-ID: <3EAD964C.8020106@crs4.it> References: <3EAAC338.1030109@wanadoo.fr> <3ead4c4a$0$4091$4d4ebb8e@read.news.de.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparre.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: pietro.crs4.it 1051601231 6142 156.148.2.163 (29 Apr 2003 07:27:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nntpserver.crs4.it. NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 2003 07:27:11 GMT User-Agent: Any Browser, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 X-Accept-Language: fo, da, no, sv, is, fr, de, en- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36718 Date: 2003-04-29T07:27:11+00:00 List-Id: Andrew wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: >>Bernard WEISSER wrote: >>The Gnat-gcc 3.x series are not up to speed yet, so wait with upgrading >>until they have finished porting them over to the Gcc 3.x backend. Agreed. But it might be useful to give it a try now and then. > Unfortunately the upgrading is done for many of us, due to the > featuritis that has infested the Linux distributors. If you are allowed to install more than just you Linux distributors official packages (and are working on a supported architecture), try to install the binary version from ACT in "/opt/gnat-3.15p" (I think that's what the LSB/FHS advices). That's what I have done on my Red Hat 7.3 system and it seems to work fine. > What also worries me is the potential damage done to GNAT's reputation. > The major distributions advertise the fact that they have an Ada > compiler, unfortunately for the current releases it is almost useless. > A number of potential Ada newbies could be in for a disappointment. I do what I can, to warn people about the GCC 3 based Ada compilers that come with the Linux distributions at the moment. I hope I can soon stop doing that. Greetings, Jacob -- "Banning open source would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused DOD groups to protect themselves against cyberattacks" -- Mitre Corp.