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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 compiler for NetBSD
Date: 04 Dec 2001 15:49:03 -0500
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aaro@iki.fi (Aaro Koskinen) writes:

> "Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net> writes:
> > From what I read regarding GNAT, the source code is written in Ada
> > and requires an already-existing GNAT installation. Catch-22? 

You can build GNAT as a cross compiler, from a system where you have a
working binary, to the target system. Then use the cross-compiler to
compile GNAT; all done.

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-- Stephe