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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1f8e832ba94acd67 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:19:09 -0600 From: "Jeff C" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Which GNAT for Fedora Core 3? Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:19:36 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <7_6dnbkuZeFAl0LcRVn-2g@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-heo3cl4pO5aC3TPnlXRCRQ1JOiKLLZelPdKUWnUtuBGTkjSq8SVyVHqzUa8ihCR8fEr4X4Z7WEl0Of/!Dou67RKPR0Q7JzddLrFbt/nMxC8LifeddGgk89T/JRFZeoMnC1bZnaYTRWsCqA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7552 Date: 2005-01-07T17:19:36-05:00 List-Id: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" wrote in message news:pan.2005.01.07.00.51.21.918128@linuxchip.demon.co.uk.uk.uk... > Hi guys! > > I am hoping to install a complete GNAT compiler and tools > on Fedora Core 3 (Linux) on Athlon XP. > > Which version of GNAT is likely to be best, assuming I want > something reasonably stable and mature? > > Will I have to build Glade, Florist, GtkAda, PolyORB etc. myself, or > does anyone have .rpm packages for these? > > I ask because I find gcc-gnat-3.3.2, 3.4.3, 3.2.2, 3.15p versions > around, and reports of compatibility problems, threading problems etc, > and assume readers here will have already solved any problems arising. > > Thank you! > -- > Dr. Adrian Wrigley, Cambridge, UK > If this is for a university project I'd look into AdaCore Ada Academic Initiative (http://www.adacore.com/academic.php) and see what they say (as far as cost) first. All of the current public releases have one problem or another. I don't think that the community has quite come to grips with the apparent lack of future public releases from AdaCore (not saying that it will never happen...but it has not happened in a really long time) 3.15p is old, lacks a few features and has issues on newer Linux kernels without workarounds The 3.2/3.3 series from FSF (at least in my use) ran into more plain old compiler bugs than 3.15p 3.4.3 is really not bad at all ( I have yet to hit a code mis compile or bug box) but there are debugging issues (though I have not tried to compile the recent Gdb CVS at the libre site that showed up a month or so ago).