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* Re: gnat for BSDi?
@ 1997-04-23  0:00 Jesus M. Gonzalez
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From: Jesus M. Gonzalez @ 1997-04-23  0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)




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.

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* gnat for BSDi?
@ 1997-04-18  0:00 Jeff Hightower
  1997-04-20  0:00 ` Jeff Hightower
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Hightower @ 1997-04-18  0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)



I have experimentally developed several large applications for use on
our
local web server.  Unfortionately we recently changed our web server
from a
Sun-OS Box to a BSDi box.  Basically I am curious if there is a version
of the Ada compiler which will run under BSDi.

It would be easier if replys could come to me personally via e-mail as I
am
not a regular reader of this group.  ( Although maybe I should be :-) )
I really do appreciate any expert advice that I am given.

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