From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ea54133a4407db6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jgb@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es (Jesus M. Gonzalez) Subject: Re: gnat for BSDi? Date: 1997/04/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 236820219 Sender: jgb@hola.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es Organization: GSYC, Univ. Carlos III Madrid, Spain. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: geert@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) writes: > > Robert Dewar (dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu) wrote: > what is the relation of NetBSD FreeBSD and BSDi, certainly GNAT ports > exist for the first two ... > > Their relation is that they all are slightly different from OpenBSD. > Basically all these OS-es are based on the BSD 4.4 (lite) sources from > UCB. BSDi is a commercial product, the others are free. They have a > less restrictive license than GPL however. NetBSD is available on several > hardware platforms, FreeBSD is Intel only. OpenBSD is the newest > variant, created because some people had different opinions than the > NetBSD people. > > Anyway, this description is too short to be precise, but I want to > avoid comparing religions. This is actually more appriopriate to > the comp.unix.misc or comp.unix.bsd.* groups. I have redirected > followups to comp.unix.misc. I also don't want to enter any religious war, but maybe some more information may be interesting to *BSD potential users of Gnat. As far as I know, there are versions of Gnat for NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/ARM, and for FreeBSD (no tasking yet). Since OpenBSD is capable of running NetBSD executables, OpenBSD also counts as `ported platform'. The FreeBSD port has been done by cross-compiling from SunOS, AFAIK, and the process doesn't seem to be that complex. It sould be of similar complexity getting a BSDI compiler from a SunOS (or in fact any other Unix) version. In fact, it should be easier, since the documentation of the FreeBSD porter (Daniel M. Eischen) is available Jesus. -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | addr.: c/ Butarque, 15 Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones | 28911 Leganes, Spain Departamento de Informatica | tel: +34 1 624 94 58 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | fax: +34 1 624 94 30 e-mail: jgb@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es | www: http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~jgb