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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d945a8f6b5b4deef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-21 11:52:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news.vas-net.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: MJ Croft-White Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat ADA binaries for SGI/Irix Date: 21 Dec 2000 19:50:34 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: mjcw100@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <91tmua$2j0$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> References: <91rgsu$edq$1@pump1.york.ac.uk> <3A41B7DA.FF647829@Physik.Uni-Magdeburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailer.york.ac.uk X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 977428234 2656 144.32.128.96 (21 Dec 2000 19:50:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 2000 19:50:34 GMT User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981002 ("Phobia") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u)) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3332 Date: 2000-12-21T19:50:34+00:00 List-Id: Many thanks evreyone, although my university seem to have got the idea that there sgi license is special - they won't even give out the simplist things that I know they have a site license for! I don't think they know what an sgi is let alone what they can and can't do with there software. Anyway I only need a basic ada compiler as I have a course on it next year. Usually I use Java or C, although hopefully once I have some kind of binary I should be able to compile a newer version. Again many thanks Michael Croft-White > MJ Croft-White schrieb: >> >> As is annoyingly chicken and egg like, I need an Ada compiler for my >> indigo2 machine - namely GNAT (cos it's free!), but I need an ada compiler >> to compile the source, and hence I need a binary to get the ada compiler >> in the first place! Hence the endless loop begins. Therefore does anyone >> know where I can find a reasonably up to date binary for my SGI , I have >> already tried the ftp sites and various searches have led to nothing for >> the MIPS/SGI/Irix. If there isn't one I will have to use the communal >> computer facilities in my department - uck! >> >> Many thanks >> >> Michael Croft-White > If you want to have the public version, please use > > ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/private/old > there are the binaries > > gnat-3.11p-mips-sgi-irix5.3-bin.tar.gz > It seems that there are no newer public version exist. > But SGI distributes a version that seems not to be public, > the current version is SGI-Ada 1.4.1, which seems to be > something like gnat3.12. We have some university-license, > which includes Ada. (I guess that Ada is generally included > in university-licenses, but the people from SGI usually do > not install it because it is not used very often.) > There is also some other problem, the 64bit support in the > newer SGI-Ada versions seems to be disappeared. I recently > asked a question in gnatlist, but no response yet. > I would suggest to contact your seller, there is a separate > CD in the software, which includes the SGI-Ada compiler, > only if this fails, I would use the somewhat outdated version > 3.11p from the site above. > Good luck ! > -Gerald