Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On 14 May 2002 11:04:46 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> You'll have to back that up. Here's an example from my recent
> experience:

I don't take on me other peoples lack of knowledge about Debian ;-) (se
below)


> To install GNAT 3.14p:
> 
> Debian Linux:
> 
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NO NO NO NO NO completely wrong! (besides why didn't you get the:
gnat-3.14p-i686-pc-linux-gnu-bin.tar.gz when you clearly too the binary
version in windows?)

Look at:

   http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/gnat.html

Gnat 3.14p is in testing. You simply install it from there. The point is
that you have only set up Debian stable and Debian stable is excatly
that; stable from when it was realeased. Only security issues warrents 
an upgrade of a package. 

Debian Testing contains the packages that will go into the next Debian
Stable and is being updated until there is a distribution freeze. And
Debian unstable contains all bleeding edge pacakges. I suggest you read
a bit about this.

If you add testing to your apt source.list and then you do:

apt-get update
apt-get istall gnat

and it will install 3.14p and make sure that your other libraries also
are updated (ex. gktada)


> On Windows:
> 
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> Now, if I had picked an app for which Debian has a package avialable,
> say Emacs, the two are about the same; one click each. Still have to
> remember the command 'dselect' in Debian, though.

Absolutely not true. If you want to update your debian system you simply
do:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

and then all packages that have been updated will be installed. Besides
the integrety of your entire system will be intact as apt-get will also
install all packages that this package needs. This you do not have in
Windows at all.

apt-get install emacs 
will not only install emacs, but will also install all packages that
emacs is *dependant* on. This will not happen in Windows.

When the current Debian Testing (named Woody) becomes stable in a short
(hopefully) time, then all you need to do is:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

to update your entire system without destroying your preferences etc...

Now please tell me how simple it is to update from say 98 to XP :-)

Preben