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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server?
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Date: 2013-01-04T06:42:47-05:00
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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