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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: gnat-3.10
Date: 1997/06/13
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Date: 1997-06-13T00:00:00+00:00
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Ronald Cole said

<<Why do your excuses keep changing, Bob?  And why didn't you answer my
question at the end of my post?  I think we all know why...
 
I've clearly demonstrated that the gnat1 binary in the hpux
distribution is broken... for both your supported *and* unsupported
users.  Plain and simple.  Of course, you're too proud to fix it or to
document the actual "fiddling around" required to bootstrap on this
platform in the src/README.UNIX file because that would be tantamount
to admitting that you might actually have been wrong.>>

First, I am Robert, not Bob :-)

Second, we do our best to give accurate directions for building from
sources. Generally we are quite successful, since many knowledgable
people can indeed build successfully, even if they are not our customers.
Of course if they are our customers, then we provide whatever help they
need.

Your difficulties might be incompetence, or something you have overlooked,
or a glitch in the instructions, or a wrong patch somewhere, or a wrong
version of something, but the point is that we are not the slightest bit
interested in spending time to investigate which on a volunteer basis.

I do not know quite what you want me to admit as wrong. All I have every
claimed is that a lot of people have managed to build from sources, and that
we do not care to spend any time helping people build from sources unless
they are our customers, and finally, that all binary versions of GNAT have
been bootstrapped by us (it is actually impossible for us to prepare a binary
version without bootstrapping, since the process of preparing a binary version
is part of the run that does a bootstrap).

The fact that you cannot build from sources would be a concern to us if you
were a customer, but since you are not, it is not. As i said before, we do
our best to make the instructions for building from sources complete and
accurate, but we make absolutely NO guarantees that these instructions are
complete or accurate.

You seen to continue to expect me or us to spend time looking through your
build attempts. Sorry, won't happen if you are not a customer! We are a
commercial company, not a help-Ronald-with-his-problems-at-no-cost
organization!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies