Re: Gnattest under Debian/Ubuntu Linux/Linux Lint

[ziotom78@gmail.com]

Hi again,

  It turns out it was easier than I expected. Basically, after having downloaded the tar file from http://libre.adacore.com/download/, I compiled and installed gnatgpl into /usr/gnat (the default choice), I put the following file into /etc/profile.d/gnat.sh:

#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/usr/gnat/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/gnat/lib:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/gnat/lib:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LIBRARY_PATH
export ADA_PROJECT_PATH=/usr/gnat/lib/gnat

(Avoiding the reference to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu leads to a weird behavior, as it will make gcc crash at link time because it is not able to find crt1.o -- fortunately I already knew the solution to this problem. The other definitions are pretty standard stuff.)

After sourcing the file (with ". /etc/profile.d/gnat.sh"), I was able to compile AUnit, GnatColl, Florist, AUnit, XmlAda, and GtkAda quite easily (the latter required to remove one #include instruction which made GLib complain).

Everything seems to work well now, and I finally have an usable "gnattest". (Only a minor nuisance: GPS does not look very nice, perhaps the Gtk+ version it links to is older than the one used by the gnat-gps package. Anyway, it seems to be fully functional.)

I am writing this here so perhaps it'll be of some use for somebody else in my situation.

Cheers,
  Maurizio.