fyi: building Florist on Linux.

fyi: building Florist on Linux.

[nabbasi]

Florist is the FSU implementaton of IEEE Standard 1003.5b-1996, 
the POSIX Ada binding.

see http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/florist.html

I have downloaded:

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/ftp/pub/PART/FLORIST/florist-3.12w-fsu.tar.gz

And build it on Linux (thanks to Dr Ted Baker for his good help to me via 
email on this).

Make sure when you build this on Linux, that you set GNAT to point to
Native threads! This is very important. If you use the default FSU threads,
then the tests will not run (they all core dump) and you'll end up with a 
bad build. Florist does not support FSU. 

instructions how to make GNAT point to Linux native threads are in GNAT
distribution.

My understanding is that the ALT Gnat Linux RPM's will install GNAT set to
use Linux Native threads by default. This is a good idea, as per 
the above problem.

Ok, Now I have Ada Posix library ready, I am going to go write some
Unix programs in Ada, this should be fun :)
 

Nasser
my Ada page: http://home.pacbell.net/nma123