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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e0a833839e226c98 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adrian Hoe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 01:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6456fec7-4037-4ca4-bf99-edcac7b26e3d@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: <5c7f95fb-8fe8-4abb-bdcc-f0c8731a9f59@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.53.234.228 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1211792018 20343 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2008 08:53:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 08:53:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.53.234.228; posting-account=coq9PAkAAAB2Xx46RZLFJw5dY9DVXW4- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:354 Date: 2008-05-26T01:53:38-07:00 List-Id: On May 26, 3:47 pm, Ludovic Brenta 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. -- Adrian Hoe http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/