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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,45cf1fc1b1a9dade X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-20 03:39:09 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT for Mac? Date: 19 Nov 1994 12:07:16 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3albc4$9g3@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3aipsv$pgr@info.epfl.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1994-11-19T12:07:16-05:00 List-Id: Laurent Gasser is spreading a common piece of misinformation when he incorrectly conjectures that the lack of a MAC port of GCC (and hence GNAT) is due to the LPF boycott of Apple (which is in any case, as far as I know, ended). The one and only reason that there is no version of GCC for GNAT is that no one has done the port. There is nothing stopping anyone from doing this port [were the boycott in place, the port would not be included in the standard FSF distribution, but so what, lots of important ports of GCC, including for example the popular EMX port for OS/2) are not distributed by FSF. Of course it's nice to have everything in the main distribution, but you can't in any case distribute what doesn't exist, and in this case it is more to the point to worry about how to get the port to exist, than to worry about how it is distributed when it does exist! THe history is that there was a GCC version 1 port for the MAC, done I think by someone at Apple. But this port ran under MPW, so it was of limited use. What is needed is a native port of GCC 2.6.2. As I noted in a previous message, I believe there is some activity at Cygnus. If you want a port of GCC there are three things you can do: 1) do it yourself, the most useful, but the most difficult alternative 2) let the folks at Apple know you really want a port 3) let the folks at Cygnus (gumby@cygnus.com) know that you really want a port. Note that Cygnus is interested in selling support for GCC, so your interest is more interesting to them if you are need to use MAC/GCC or MAC/GNAT for serious work requiring commercial support :-)