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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing GNAT version 3.12p for Linux and Sparc Solaris
Date: 1999/10/26
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"James E. Hopper" <hopperj@macconnect.com> writes:
> i am refering to the Machten/Codebuilder port.  the problem with ppc
> linux is that gcc will not boot strap (c or ada) unless you build it
> with either egcs or gcc 2.95 neither of which is supported for gnat.
> someone has patches to replace the gcc-281.dif patche that come with
> gnat, but i havent been able to find them.  i built a cross compiler
> using gcc-2.8.1 from intel linux to ppc linux and built 3.11.  it will
> build itself, but the compilers (c and ada) that are built from 2.8.1
> versions will not build themseves.  i will put more time into it soon
> if someone doesnt do it first.  if anyone has egcs (or 2.9.5) patches
> to replace the 281 patchs it would help a great deal.

If someone's building RPMs, I hope it's against Redhat 6.1 and uses
egcs.  GCC 2.95 was released on July 31 and still seems unfit to build
a reliable Linux kernel.  It was rumored by Mr. Dewar that ACT had
donated gnat to be merged into the GCC distribution.  Last I heard, it
was a non-trivial effort to get gnat merged into egcs-1.1.2; but that
was much, much earlier this year.  However, absence of evidence isn't
evidence of absence!  That said, I still have my doubts that an egcs
patch exists for gnat-3.12p.  Does someone know whether we'll see gnat
merged into the gcc-3.0 release?

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