Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Matthew Graybosch]

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I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on Ada.
I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, as well as the ada-mode packages
for XEmacs 21.1. I've been working through the Lovelace tutorial and trying
to build some of the examples.

I get as far as invoking "gnatmake -c compute.adb" from XEmacs, which places
the following files in ~/src/ada: "compute.ali" and "compute.o".

I'd like to be able to run my Ada code, but I haven't been able to find a
manual for GNAT on FreeBSD. gnatmake doesn't have a man page, and Google
hasn't turned up anything useful. If anybody can point me in the right
direction, I'd appreciate it.

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Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Gerhard Häring]

Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
>  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on Ada.
>  I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 

Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)

>  as well as the ada-mode packages
>  for XEmacs 21.1. I've been working through the Lovelace tutorial and trying
>  to build some of the examples.
>  
>  I get as far as invoking "gnatmake -c compute.adb" from XEmacs, which places
>  the following files in ~/src/ada: "compute.ali" and "compute.o".
>  
>  I'd like to be able to run my Ada code, but I haven't been able to find a
>  manual for GNAT on FreeBSD.

Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
report for it.

The file you're looking for is here:

    ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/gnat-3.13p-docs.tar.gz

Just unpack it anywhere you like.

Btw. "gnatmake someprogram.adb" compiles the program to an executable
called "someprogram". "gnatmake -c" only creates an object file.

Gerhard
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
From: Gerhard Hï¿œring <gerhard@bigfoot.de>
Subject: Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)
References: <20020101220112.4bd5727d.matthew@starbreaker.net>
Followup-To: 

Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
>  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on Ada.
>  I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 

Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)

>  as well as the ada-mode packages
>  for XEmacs 21.1. I've been working through the Lovelace tutorial and trying
>  to build some of the examples.
>  
>  I get as far as invoking "gnatmake -c compute.adb" from XEmacs, which places
>  the following files in ~/src/ada: "compute.ali" and "compute.o".
>  
>  I'd like to be able to run my Ada code, but I haven't been able to find a
>  manual for GNAT on FreeBSD.

Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
report for it.

The file you're looking for is here:

    ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/gnat-3.13p-docs.tar.gz

Just unpack it anywhere you like.

Btw. "gnatmake someprogram.adb" compiles the program to an executable
called "someprogram". "gnatmake -c" only creates an object file.

Gerhard
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Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Gerhard Häring]

Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
>  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on Ada.
>  I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 

Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)

>  as well as the ada-mode packages
>  for XEmacs 21.1. I've been working through the Lovelace tutorial and trying
>  to build some of the examples.
>  
>  I get as far as invoking "gnatmake -c compute.adb" from XEmacs, which places
>  the following files in ~/src/ada: "compute.ali" and "compute.o".
>  
>  I'd like to be able to run my Ada code, but I haven't been able to find a
>  manual for GNAT on FreeBSD.

Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
report for it.

The file you're looking for is here:

    ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/gnat-3.13p-docs.tar.gz

Just unpack it anywhere you like.

Btw. "gnatmake someprogram.adb" compiles the program to an executable
called "someprogram". "gnatmake -c" only creates an object file.

Gerhard
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Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Matthew Graybosch]

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On 2 Jan 2002 03:31:28 GMT
Gerhard H�ring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> wrote:

> Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
> >  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on
> >  Ada. I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 
> 
> Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)

Thanks. I figure that it's bad enough that I have to work on Windows (using
Visual Basic, no less). I'd have to insane to want to deal with Windows at
home. Besides, I like Unix. 
> Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
> report for it.

I wonder if I should send a message to the port maintainer as well... I'll
do it if he forgets the docs in the next version.

> The file you're looking for is here:
> 
>     ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/gnat-3.13p-docs.tar.gz
> 
> Just unpack it anywhere you like.

It's in the pipe now. Thanks.

> Btw. "gnatmake someprogram.adb" compiles the program to an executable
> called "someprogram". "gnatmake -c" only creates an object file.

*smacks forehead* So *that's* where I fouled up. I thought I had to manually
invoke gnatbind and gnatlink on the *.ali file. Thanks again.

Hey, the last line in your sig is LISP code, isn't it?

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Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Gerhard Häring]

Matthew Graybosch wrote:
>  On 2 Jan 2002 03:31:28 GMT
>  Gerhard Hï¿œring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> wrote:
>  
> > Matthew Graybosch schrieb:
> > >  I've been comparing languages for Linux/BSD programming and settled on
> > >  Ada. I installed the FreeBSD 4.4 port of GNAT, 
> > 
> > Excellent choice, both language and OS :-)
>  
>  Thanks. I figure that it's bad enough that I have to work on Windows (using
>  Visual Basic, no less). I'd have to insane to want to deal with Windows at
>  home. Besides, I like Unix. 

VB6? Condolecences. I had that once. I wonder what all the VB shops will do
when they get a half-way real programming language with VB.NET. Now I'm mostly
doing Java. And for fun at home, Python.

> > Looks like the GNAT docs haven't been packaged, yet. I'll file a problem
> > report for it.

Done: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33459

>  I wonder if I should send a message to the port maintainer as well... I'll
>  do it if he forgets the docs in the next version.

Can't hurt.

>  [...]
>  Hey, the last line in your sig is LISP code, isn't it?

Close, but not quite. Abusing Python's functional features:

Python 2.1.1 (#1, Sep 13 2001, 18:12:15)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
'Python rules!'

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Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Ted Dennison]

In article <slrna351vj.5m2.gerhard@gargamel.hqd-internal>, Gerhard
=?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= says...
>
>Matthew Graybosch wrote:
>>  Hey, the last line in your sig is LISP code, isn't it?
>
>Close, but not quite. Abusing Python's functional features:
>
>reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))

That makes sense. It starts off looking like Lisp that might be readable given
good knolwedge of the language and a bit more white space, but it ends up
looking like line noise.

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[OT] Obfuscated Python

[Gerhard Häring]

Ted Dennison schrieb im Artikel <xkFY7.553$cD4.485@www.newsranger.com>:
>  In article <slrna351vj.5m2.gerhard@gargamel.hqd-internal>, Gerhard
> =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= says...
> >
> >Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> >>  Hey, the last line in your sig is LISP code, isn't it?
> >
> >Close, but not quite. Abusing Python's functional features:
> >
> >reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
>  
>  That makes sense. It starts off looking like Lisp that might be readable given
>  good knolwedge of the language and a bit more white space, but it ends up
>  looking like line noise.

If one really wants to write this as a one-liner in Python, it's
probably best written using Haskell-like list comprehensions:

''.join([chr(ord(x)^42) for x in tuple('zS^BED\nXEIAY\x0b')])

which is pretty idiomatic Python.

I'll cite Fredrik Lundh's insights on (over)using lambdas:

here's the eff-bot's favourite lambda refactoring rule: 
1) write a lambda function
2) write a comment explaining what the heck that lambda does
3) study the comment for a while, and think of a name that captures
   the essence of the comment
4) convert the lambda to a def statement, using that name
5) remove the comment

-- Fredrik Lundh, 01 Apr 2001

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Re: Need manual for GNAT on FreeBSD 4.4-Release on i386 (AMD Athlon)

[Matthew Graybosch]

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On 2 Jan 2002 04:10:56 GMT
Gerhard H�ring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> wrote:

> VB6? Condolecences. I had that once. I wonder what all the VB shops will
> do when they get a half-way real programming language with VB.NET. Now I'm
> mostly doing Java. And for fun at home, Python.

Chances are, a lot of people are going to soil their pants. As it is, I've
been reading up on it myself -- it seems fitting to use a toy language like
VB for a toy OS like Windows. I suppose I shouldn't complain too much; it
*does* pay the bills, and it's not like the boss insists that I run XP at
home.

Besides, I tried C++ under Windows and had nightmares for a month.

> Close, but not quite. Abusing Python's functional features:

Ah. It looked like LISP because I've been learning a bit of elisp so I can
play with XEmacs a bit. For scripting I've been learning to read Perl. I
might not hack Perl much, but if I'm going to use Unix I should at least
know how to read the stuff.

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