Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu

[Adrian Hoe <abyhoe@gmail.com>]

On May 26, 3:47 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Adrian Hoe wrote:
> > Sorry to trouble you, but I have no idea where I am supposed to post
> > this. I have posted in Ubuntu forum and AWS list. I guess it will be
> > no harm to post this here.
>
> > I was trying to install AWS shared library packages by Ubuntu but it
> > seemed there was a broken dependency. So I decided to build AWS
> > myself.
>
> The packages are not by Ubuntu; they are by me and are from Debian.
> The problem is that Ubuntu 8.04 breaks some dependencies by not
> providing certain packages, as you discovered. If you want a stable
> development platform for Ada, your life would me much simpler if you
> would use Debian stable, which contains AWS precompiled with no broken
> dependencies.
>
> If you want the bleeding edge (i.e. gnat-4.3 and more recent
> packages), use Debian unstable. Ubuntu lags behind Debian; that's what
> you get for using a derivative and not the original :)
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.



The problem is, I moved from Debian to Ubuntu. :( As a matter of fact,
Ubuntu's installation is a lot easier than Debian, according to my
experience.

But Debian's Etch distributes up to gnat-4.1. My development
environment on Mac OS X is gnat-4.4, so gnat-4.3 is pretty much closer
to that. I don't know what is the big difference between 4.1, 4.3 and
4.4. I haven't followed the development of Ada/gnat compiler for a
while.
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Adrian Hoe
http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/