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From: "Tor-Einar Jarnbjo" <bjote@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: GNAT for an unsupported Unix-system?
Date: 1997/11/10
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Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-11-10T00:00:00+00:00
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Hi,

I recently downloaded the source-codes for the latest GNAT Ada-compiler,
but then I saw that I needed the last version of GNAT to compile the
new version of GNAT. Well, this results in an interesting problem when
trying to port GNAT to a Unix-system for which there are no binaries.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to solve this? E.g. BinProlog is
written in Prolog, but has a small part written in C, making it possible
to compile enough of the compiler with gcc, to make it able to compile
itself. Is there a similar do-magic-thingy for GNAT, or perhaps another
free Ada-compiler written in C?

Tor-Einar