From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a57f5fa07a455c58 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: where is a gnat 3.11 rpm for linux Date: 2000/03/15 Message-ID: <878zzkt1jg.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 597974304 References: <4ajy4.2280$7L.165620@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> <38CA124D.5CB7FF4F@mail.utexas.edu> <38CA2EED.C0BEF61@gmx.net> <952818071.18243.0.nnrp-10.d4e5bde1@news.demon.co.uk> <87ln3kwy7c.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <38CF9082.2411597F@mail.utexas.edu> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.argh.org X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.argh.org 953152499 5351 192.168.1.2 (15 Mar 2000 20:34:59 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Florian Weimer NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Mar 2000 20:34:59 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-15T20:34:59+00:00 List-Id: "Bobby D. Bryant" 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).