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From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/01/27
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Pascal Martin <pascal.martin@iname.com.nospam> writes:

> This is the reverse, actually: GNAT is very difficult to build.

Only if there's no prebuilt binary version for the host platform.

Otherwise, it's not a simple `./configure; make; make install', but only
a few additional commands are required, and they are well-documented.
In particular, you don't have to build seven additional libraries first
which hardly anyone else uses, and edit the source code to reflect
recent changes in GCC's C and/or C++ implementation.  This isn't very
difficult either, but it's much more time-consuming.