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From: dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons)
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Subject: Re: Ada for OS/2
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:06:14 +0200
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 16:10:47, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

> dwparsons@t-online.de (Dave Parsons) wrote in message news:<Ej0w7lFo08Zw-pn2-7JOd7XW2RPdN@jupiter.dwparsons.dialin.t-online.de>...
> > In essence, I only followed the instructions in README.BUILD, plus
> > a few minor tweaks to the makefiles.
> 
> In our experience, building GNAT is quite straightforward if 
> 
> a) you have reasonable experience with building gcc, and know the
> basic structure of the makefiles (and are fully familiar with make),
> i.e. just basic gcc build knowledge
> 
> b) you follow the instructions. It is amazing how often people get
> into trouble because they think they know better than the instructions :-)

I am still in the testing phase at the moment but, thinking positive and
looking to the future, will ACT continue to update the sources, makefiles
etc so that private OS/2 builds will still be possible?

I don't like the idea of multiple source distributions floating around and
also I don't have the time to be the OS/2 maintainer, although I am happy to
build them now and then so long as the time required does not escalate.

Dave.