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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: ADA for OS/2
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Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:<u8zi1m89b.fsf@wanadoo.fr>...

> The problem is not the speed of the machine but under OS/2 and Windows you
> have to fight the fact that all scripts and makefile are UNIX oriented.
> 
> And this is really time consumming.
> 

Pascal is talking about Windows, which he is certainly familiar with.
What he says really does not apply to OS/2 (I don't believe Pascal
has ever done the GNAT build in OS/2 as far as I know). In fact the
build on OS/2 is fairly straightforward for anyone familiar with
OS/2, EMX, and GCC. Certainly *nothing* like the huge effort required
to build under Windows (which consumes a huge amount of ACT's time :-)

I'm not a particularly useful detailed source of knowledge on how to
build the OS/2 release from sources at this stage. I have a very
specialized set of makefiles setup on my personal machine which are
very specifically tuned for the way I do development.