Re: Need Help Porting Gnat to S390

[minyard@acm.org]

I really doubt the S390 Linux supports gcc 2.8.1.  I'd guess that they
did the port effort on 2.95 (that's the GCC that SuSE S390 comes
with), since 2.8.1 was ancient when they started.  It would be quite
hard to get GNAT working on 2.95, and it would be quite hard to
backport gcc on S390 to 2.8.1.

Better do some homework here.

I have the same problem with PowerPC, but hopefully the 3.0 port of
GNAT will make things all better :-).  And if my memory serves
correctly, Mr. Dewar has said "days or weeks" instead of "months or
years", so maybe my waiting days will be over soon.  But things will
probably not be smooth with 3.0 for a while.

-Corey

"Ken O. Burtch" <kburtch@mackenziefinancial.com> writes:

> The 390 account is on loan for only 3 months.  If we are going to port GNAT,
> it will have to be the current version.
> 
> Ken Burtch
> 
> Laurent Guerby wrote:
> 
> > "Ken O. Burtch" <kburtch@mackenziefinancial.com> writes:
> > > We're interested in porting our System Manager in a Box program to the
> > > S390, but first we need to be able to port GNAT.  We're looking for
> > > volunteers interested in working on a port of the public version of GNAT
> > > to the S390.  If you are interested in the fame, the glory, or just want
> > > the experience of working on a mainframe running Linux, please email Dan
> > > Braun at dbraun@home-nospam.com (remove -nospam) for more information.
> >
> > I assume you'll start when GNAT is commited to the GCC CVS repository,
> > and not with GCC 2.8.1 / GNAT 3.13p, right?
> >
> > --
> > Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>