From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 29 15:57:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21950 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-ofc05.srv.cis.pitt.edu (post-ofc05.srv.cis.pitt.edu [136.142.185.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA21945 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from morose.rmt.net.pitt.edu (ehdup-i-7.rmt.net.pitt.edu [136.142.21.177]) by post-ofc05.srv.cis.pitt.edu with SMTP (8.8.5/cispo-2.0.1.7) ID ; Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:51:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <333DAB5D.49EE@pitt.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:53:01 -0500 From: John Duncan Organization: Papyrus, Inc; Univeristy of Pittsburgh X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel M. Eischen" CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building Solaris->FreeBSD cross binutils References: <199703292225.QAA16185@iworks.InterWorks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 Hmm, yes. GNAT is not exactly part of gcc. It's a true-to-life compiler that then uses the GCC code-generator for platform independence. But yes, to compile it, you will need to target FreeBSD. I'd reccommend checking the gnat site to see if the generic version will compile and run. The name GNAT is a silly one because they liked the animal reference and GAC or GNAC or NAC wouldn't do good. BTW, it means Gnu-NYU Ada Translator. -John