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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rodemann@mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Joerg Rodemann) Subject: Re: gnat-3.10 Date: 1997/06/16 Message-ID: <5o3p39$f2o$1@orion-fddi.rz.uni-ulm.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 248853328 References: Organization: University of Ulm, SAI, Germany Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hello folks! Ronald Cole (ronald@ridgenet.net) wrote: > Why do your excuses keep changing, Bob? And why didn't you answer my > question at the end of my post? I think we all know why... > I've clearly demonstrated that the gnat1 binary in the hpux > distribution is broken... for both your supported *and* unsupported > users. Plain and simple. Of course, you're too proud to fix it or to > document the actual "fiddling around" required to bootstrap on this > platform in the src/README.UNIX file because that would be tantamount > to admitting that you might actually have been wrong. Makes me thinking...wouldn't it be nice if EVERYTHING I am unable to install, to build or to develop --- is definitely broken? For if I can't do it, nobody ca do it? I think rather no. Maybe building GNAT is not an easy thing, I do not know. Although I managed a whole lot of software installations also from source until now I failed to build GNAT. Most problably this was due to lack of both time and experience (that was also my first try to compile gcc). On the otherhand a collegue of mine sure succeded in compiling, linking and installing gcc with C/C++ and Ada-support (That was GNAT 3.03 or 3.04.) within two days. And it only took him that long because the machine was not the fastest at that time. As far as I remember he too had some problems which occured due to usage of the wrong optimization level. Sure it was explained in the installation instructions. :-} We just did not look at it carefully enough. So is GNAT 3.10 broken? I very strongly believe this is not the case: using a lot of binary versions for quite a time now --- on different plattform --- I am sure the binaries are working. And those binaries must be built from some source, don't they? And I can't imagine that Mr. Dewar or anyone else at ACT will change their releases just in order to leave YOU unable to build that release. Especially if there are some folks who tell you that they've succeeded. Well, just a few thoughts...if I am able to admit something is or at least was beyond my capabilies --- why can't you? Just blaming other people does not help you very much, especially if you do it in such an aggressive and unpolite way. Have nice day Yours Joerg -- Dipl.-Phys. Joerg S. Rodemann rodemann@mathematik.uni-ulm.de Flurstrasse 21 --- D-70372 Stuttgart --- Tel. (0711) 5090670 !!! My former address at Blaustein is no longer valid !!!