On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:43:50PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: > Well, that raises the question of how Debian and Red Hat got an Ada compiler > to start with. Or for that matter, Slackware, or any of the other > distributions out there. Was there some free Intel-based Ada compiler > (non-gcc) available that everyone used?
It was presumably bootstrapped at some point the same way that gcc was, using a cross-compiler. Once binaries exist, they're self-sustaining. -- - mdz
