From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: where is a gnat 3.11 rpm for linux
Date: 2000/03/15
Date: 2000-03-15T20:34:59+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878zzkt1jg.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38CF9082.2411597F@mail.utexas.edu
"Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
> > You can always keep 3.12p and glibc 2.0 if you want to. Or you can
> > hire someone who ports future GNAT versions for you. Or perhaps the
> > "official" ACT version works for you.
>
> Since he already has a version running, can't he just download the source (or
> RPM sources) for any new versions that come out, and build them on his own
> system? Or did some GNAT internal code have to change with the library
> change?
The compiler itself should be unaffected, but the GNAT runtime library is
an entirely different story because it expects a certain but undocumented
or underdocumented behavior of the underlying libc and kernel interfaces.
In addition, there might be interoperability problems with the remaining
parts of the GNU toolchain (i.e. binutils).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-15 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-11 0:00 where is a gnat 3.11 rpm for linux William A. Hinkle
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-03-16 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-11 0:00 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-03-14 0:00 ` William A. Hinkle
2000-03-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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