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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils
To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:17:45 -0700 (MST)
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> I thought about using the Linux version of GNAT, but didn't see how I
> could build a native FreeBSD version of GNAT with the Linux version.
> The Linux version of GNAT would want to build a Linux binary.
> Perhaps it could be somehow forced to build a FreeBSD binary, but
> I didn't know how to do that.

GNAT: GNU Ada Translator

It would want to build a C source file... not a Linux binary.

Then you would compile the C source file as a FreeBSD binary.


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					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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