From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 7 10:20:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D3537B61A for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id NAA22998; Mon, 7 May 2001 13:20:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:20:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: "Peter I. Hansen" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: gnat-3.13p In-Reply-To: <3AF6D436.D2A8E2F7@oek.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 7 May 2001, Peter I. Hansen wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install 'gnat' from FreeBSD ports. Apparently it requires > gcc-2.8.1 , but I have gcc 2.95.3 on my 4.3 box, and the make fails. > > Any suggestions on how to solve this ? Uhh, you need gcc-2.8.1. GNAT is built and developed using a stable gcc and undergoes extensive validation and regression testing before it is released by its maintainers. It _changes_ the base gcc compiler in order to support Ada constructs. There are reports of some folks attempting to make the same changes to newer versions of gcc, but this is not recommended or supported by the GNAT maintainers. The GNAT maintainers are working on incorporating their changes into newer gcc's, but you'll probably have to wait for one of the next releases of GNAT for that. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message