From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: dewar@gnat.com
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: Ada files now checked in
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 09:57:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011006095737.R9432@codesourcery.com>
References: <20011006163847.BA359F28CC@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00409.html

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:38:47PM -0400, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> I must say that to me the simplest thing is that you consider only two
> scenarios:
> 
> 1. You obtain the necessary gnat1 and gnatbind from a special repository
> of starter binaries for gnat bootstrapping. These are versions that are
> guaranteed to be appropriate starting points.
> 
> 2. You have a complete gnat that you have built from the sources

See, I'm interested only in

3. You have a complete gnat provided by your system integrator.

That is the situation that the vast majority of users of the FSF CVS
tree will find themselves in.  It is the one that we *must* ensure
works, at least for all popular free operating system distributions.

zw