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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils
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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 97 16:25:39 CST
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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.
> 

It's not really a translator.  GNAT is part of gcc.  Gcc is modified
to recognize Ada, much like g77 modifies gcc to recognize Fortran.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org