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-Thread: 103376,e0a833839e226c98 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Missing Ada components in Ubuntu Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 00:47:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5c7f95fb-8fe8-4abb-bdcc-f0c8731a9f59@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1211788066 9366 127.0.0.1 (26 May 2008 07:47:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 07:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040924,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:350 Date: 2008-05-26T00:47:46-07:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > Sorry to trouble you, but I have no idea where I am supposed to post > this. I have posted in Ubuntu forum and AWS list. I guess it will be > no harm to post this here. > > I was trying to install AWS shared library packages by Ubuntu but it > seemed there was a broken dependency. So I decided to build AWS > myself. The packages are not by Ubuntu; they are by me and are from Debian. The problem is that Ubuntu 8.04 breaks some dependencies by not providing certain packages, as you discovered. If you want a stable development platform for Ada, your life would me much simpler if you would use Debian stable, which contains AWS precompiled with no broken dependencies. If you want the bleeding edge (i.e. gnat-4.3 and more recent packages), use Debian unstable. Ubuntu lags behind Debian; that's what you get for using a derivative and not the original :) -- Ludovic Brenta.