HELP: GNAT for HP 9000/755.

HELP: GNAT for HP 9000/755.

[john]

Hi all,
	This is a kind of followup to an article posted by a colleague re
installing GNAT on a HP 9000/755.

I have the sources for GNAT 1.83 and have installed GCC 2.6.0.  It appears I 
need an earlier working version og GNAT to build this version.  My problem is
that I do not have an earlier version.  The documentation seems to suggest that
I need version 1.78 to build 1.83.

My question(s):

	Do I need a previous version to build the new versiioin?

	If so where can I get a pre-built version for the HP?

	If I cannot get a pre-built version can I get a version which does not
	require already having GNAT to build?

Thanks for your time,
John Murphy.
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John Murphy						john@vax.sbu.ac.uk

Re: HELP: GNAT for HP 9000/755.

[Eric Slutz]

john@vax.sbu.ac.uk wrote:
: Hi all,
: 	This is a kind of followup to an article posted by a colleague re
: installing GNAT on a HP 9000/755.

: I have the sources for GNAT 1.83 and have installed GCC 2.6.0.  It appears I 
: need an earlier working version og GNAT to build this version.  My problem is
: that I do not have an earlier version.  The documentation seems to suggest that
: I need version 1.78 to build 1.83.

: My question(s):

: 	Do I need a previous version to build the new versiioin?

My experience is yes.

: 	If so where can I get a pre-built version for the HP?

I have built 1.83 for the HP.  It takes effort to package it up for
distributation.  I am now waiting for 2.0  which I will build and
package.  A previous port of mine is avaliable on wuarchive.

: 	If I cannot get a pre-built version can I get a version which does not
: 	require already having GNAT to build?

The only other way I know of is to do a cross compile.  I did that
with version 1.57 (if memory serves) and have since updated to EACH
new release as it came out.

Eric Slutz
slutz@slutz.dtc.hp.com

Re: HELP: GNAT for HP 9000/755.

[Robert Dewar]

It is hopeless to try to build GNAT 1.83 from 1.79. THe only thing we
guarantee is that version N+1 can be built from version N. HP binaries
for 1.83 are available. The release after 1.83 is 2.00, the current
release, and 2.00 can be built from 1.83.