From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26667 invoked by alias); 31 Aug 2004 22:01:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26659 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2004 22:01:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.enyo.de) (212.9.189.167) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 31 Aug 2004 22:01:17 -0000 Received: (debugging) helo=deneb.enyo.de ip=212.9.189.171 name=deneb.enyo.de Received: from deneb.enyo.de ([212.9.189.171]) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp id 1C2Ggm-0005Rt-Rv; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:01:16 +0200 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C2Ggk-0003Zz-Dy; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:01:14 +0200 To: Geoffrey Keating Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Ada policy References: <10408301022.AA24170@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <1093863754.17130.27.camel@pc.site> <20040830090622.GD30497@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <1093888894.17130.45.camel@pc.site> <87zn4czaql.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <1093896230.17130.95.camel@pc.site> <87657074by.fsf@codesourcery.com> From: Florian Weimer Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:11:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Geoffrey Keating's message of "31 Aug 2004 14:50:00 -0700") Message-ID: <87wtzfufv9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg01685.txt.bz2 * Geoffrey Keating: > 2. Since the Ada compiler and tools must be installed in binary form > on the other system (because there is no compiler to build it from > source), they must be fully relocatable, that is they must be able to > be installed in any location; because the person doing the > installation may not be able (or willing) to write it to /usr/local > or wherever it was originally built for. (I know the C compilers > already do this, I am not sure if it really works for Ada). The official GNAT 3.15p distributions are fully relocatable on GNU/Linux and Solaris (I haven't checked Windows). I haven't tried this with FSF releases, though.