Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:23:50 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jehamby@lightside.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GNAT Ada compiler: chicken & egg? Message-ID: <199509262223.PAA00997@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950924132727.486A-100000@localhost> (message from Jake Hamby on Sun, 24 Sep 1995 13:34:46 -0700 (PDT))
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* I'm currently in the process of compiling the GNU/NYU Ada Translator (or * GNAT) which sits on top of GCC. Since GNAT itself is WRITTEN in Ada, * it's going to be a tough chicken-and-egg sort of thing: It looks like * I'm going to have to cross-compile GNAT on another machine which already * has GNAT (my SPARCstation 20 at work, for example) and then, if all goes * well, I'll be able to compile GNAT with itself on my FreeBSD box. Hey, there is a gnat port, although I'm not sure if it compiles now, it fails here (on our test box...but this thing needs an upgrade badly, and that may be a problem, not the port). Anyway, the port is in ports/lang and the package is in packages-2.0.5/languages (since we haven't recompiled it since the release of 2.0.5 -- same goes to many others). You should be able to grab the package and use it to bootstrap it. Satoshi
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