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>I am interested in running GNAT (the GNU Ada Translator) under FreeBSD 2.2.2,
>but it appears that your "ports" entry is quite stale ... GNAT is currently
>at version 3.09 and the ports entry wants to download version 2.03 which is
>no longer available from cs.nyu.edu ... (I have recently purchased Walnut
>Creek's CDROMs for FreeBSD 2.2.2 and Ada ... and several others).

	ports-current (the latest port tree) has configuration for gnats
	3.104-beta in databases/gnats.
	port tree included in 2.2.2-RELEASE is a snapshot in the past time,
	(when the 2.2.2-RELEASE was freezed) so it may not be very
	up-to-date.

	How to upgrade should be in handbook, but I don't have handbook
	handy right now.

>Can you please tell me if you will be updating this information shortly, or
>alternatively, do you know where I can obtain GNAT binaries for FreeBSD ?
>I understand that GNAT's front-end is itself written in Ada and therefore
>one requires a version of GNAT to compile it (or newer versions) from the
>source code.

	Do you mean GNU GNATS is written in Ada?  I don't think so.

itojun