Re: Installing gnat in Linux

[Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>]

Henrik Carlqvist <henrik.carlqvist@swipnet.se> writes:
> So I will need gnat to be able to get gnat... Could anyone please
> recomend a good ftp-site where I can find a binary version which works
> with Slackware 3.1?

Get gnat-3.10p binaries for linux.  Install that.  You then have all
you need to rebuild gnat-3.10p sources with gcc-2.7.2.

> Installing from source means patching gcc, does this mean that I will
> have to replace gcc with a new one for gnat to work?

Yes.  The 2.7.2 patches add some setjmp/longjmp enhancements to gcc
in order for gnat to work properly.

Alternately, you can build gnat-3.10p with egcs-1.0.3a and not have to
apply any patches whatsoever (which might be a good idea, since the
gcc-2.7.2 patches included with gnat-3.10p break the gcc optimizer
when compiling glibc-2.0.6).

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