Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release?

[Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:40:36 GMT, Dale Stanbrough
<MrNoSpam@bigpoop.net.au> wrote:

>I was looking at cs.nyu.edu the other day, and the latest Gnat version
>still seems to be 3.15, which dates from 2002.
>
>Is this -really- the latest release?


Newer GNAT Ada files are in the FSF GCC CVS repository.

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The MinGW Ada compiler would run if the environment variable, GNAT_ROOT,
is set to a correct pathname in the Win32 unix shell (Cygwin bash or
etc.)

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I now report a success at getting WinCVS to download the FSF Gcc
compiler files. It got harder after about December 2003.

The GCC via CVS webpage: http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html

The GNATLIST mailing list is another place for this topic:
    http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/gnatlist.htm

Instructions:

Get Cygwin (setup.exe at http://www.cygwin.com), and Openssh and Minires.

Also, WinCVS 1.3: http://www.wincvs.org/ (e.g. 1.3.14.1 beta 14 build 1).

Start WinCVS 1.3.

Select "Admin / Command Line"

Note: "Remote / Checkout module" and "Admin / Login" are not used.

This command line entered is:
  cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc -tz9 checkout -P gcc

( -P prunes directories)
( -t produces some debugging information.)
WinCVS might not run correctly if the command line has a trailing
line character/characters.

I didn't have success downloading Gcc when WinCVS entered part of the
 command line (in 1 test).

   Add global options       = [No] (Instead -P is manually entered)
   Force using CVSROOT (-d) = [No]
   Execute for Dir = [No]

General:
   Authentification = ssh
   Path = /cvsroot/gcc
   Username = ext:anoncvs
   CVSROOT: ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gcc
   Behind the settings button:
      RSA [tick]: V:\gcc\home\.ssh/identity
      SSH [tick]: V:\gcc\bin\ssh.exe
      Additional Ssh options: no

The -t can show why CVS uploads so much. Due to a bug, Ctrl-C would
be pressed, and then it lists the names of the files it is
unnecessarily uploading. During downloading, it can print out
"move aside", and so on.

WinCVS ought be able to update a single directory.




Craig Carey

Ada 95 bindings to GMP precise rational numbers C software:
http://www.ijs.co.nz/code/ada95_multiprecision_gmp_bindings.zip
GMP : http://www.swox.com/gmp/