From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:42:47 -0500
Date: 2013-01-04T06:42:47-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85y5g9fa2w.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: kc56m6$kjk$2@dont-email.me
Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:39:06 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>> "Tero Koskinen" <tero.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote in message
>> news:20130103174200.bcf9c1584b18c0225c153789@iki.fi...
>>
>> It sounds like Fedora changes too often for my taste. (Do they have an
>> equivalent of the LTS of Ubuntu?). And it sounds like Debian stable is
>> just too old relative to GNAT (I do use some Ada 2005 features in my
>> code, no interfaces though.) None of which looks too promising.
>
> It's not difficult to use a newer Gnat on top of Debian, if that is your
> only objection. I don't know what the formal objections to updating Gnat
> (and its immediate dependencies) to "testing", perhaps Ludovic can say.
>
> But I have built gcc4.7.2 from source and not seen any glitches (beyond
> having to set paths so it can find libraries) and I believe Adacore Libre
> Gnat would work too. Building from source might not be recommended for a
> server though!
You can also install the GNAT GPL packages from
http://libre.adacore.com.
The downside of doing that is it is not integrated well with the rest of
the Debian packages. But since your software is all Ada, that should not
be a problem.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 0:42 Linux distro for new server? Randy Brukardt
2013-01-03 5:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-03 15:42 ` Tero Koskinen
2013-01-03 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-03 22:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-04 0:10 ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-04 11:42 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2013-01-04 2:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-04 2:46 ` Bill Findlay
2013-01-04 2:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-04 2:53 ` Bill Findlay
2013-01-04 2:46 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-05 4:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 7:59 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2013-01-11 16:55 ` Björn Persson
2013-01-04 8:33 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-01-04 11:49 ` Stephen Leake
2013-01-04 12:28 ` Simon Clubley
2013-01-03 18:32 ` Pascal Obry
2013-01-04 14:48 ` Mart van de Wege
2013-01-03 8:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-06 23:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-07 9:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2013-01-07 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-01-03 21:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-01-04 6:17 ` montezf
2013-01-05 4:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-05 16:22 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-01-08 2:49 ` Randy Brukardt
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