On Fri, 5 May 2000, Stefan Schaeckeler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am an owner of a ss 2. i would like to change to NetBSD. there might
> be one reason not to switch: gnat (gnu ada). I _need_ it. has somebody
> a working version of gnat under sparc/netbsd? (gnat is written
> partially in ada, so it is not trivially to port - i guess).
> 
	Hmm, how does gnat normally handle generating binaries for a
	new platform - cross compilation?

> (how good is the solaris emulation? does plain solaris-gcc run in
> emulation mode?)

	Unless they do anything special with threads I'd expect solaris
	programs to run fine under NetBSD (with a copy of the appropriate
	shared libraries).


		David/absolute
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