Re: problems with gnat on yosemite macox

[vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com]

Hi Leo,

Thank you very much for sharing this information. 
It prevented me from doing the same mistake !

Are older versions of gnat (2012 or 2013) working properly ?
What about Spark 2012 ? I fear to install Yosemite if a lose Ada
and Spark !

Vincent



On Saturday, October 18, 2014 2:10:13 AM UTC+2, Leo Brewin wrote:
> Hi Troops,
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> I just tried running gnatmake and friends under yosemite on MacOSX 10.10.
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> It failed badly.
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> Using the AdaCore 2014 GPL binaries I get
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>    /usr/local/gnat/bin/gcc -v
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>    Segmentation fault
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>    /usr/local/gnat/bin/gnatmake -v
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>    GNATMAKE GPL 2014 (20140331)
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>    Copyright (C) 1992-2014, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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>    try "gnatmake --help" for more information.
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> Simon's gcc-4.8.0 binaries yield a small improvement but they too fail on a simple Hello World code,
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>    which gnatmake
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>    /opt/gcc-4.8.0/bin/gnatmake
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>    
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>    gnatmake lcb01.adb
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>    gnatbind -x lcb01.ali
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>    gnatlink lcb01.ali
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>    gcc: warning: couldn't understand kern.osversion '14.0.0
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>    gcc: warning: couldn't understand kern.osversion '14.0.0
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>    Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
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>      "__Unwind_Backtrace", referenced from:
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>          ___gnat_backtrace in libgnat.a(tracebak.o)
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>    	... similar lines deleted ...
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>    ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
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>    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
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>    gnatlink: error when calling /opt/gcc-4.8.0/bin/gcc
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>    gnatmake: *** link failed.
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> The file lcb01.adb is a trivial Hello World code
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>    with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
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>    procedure lcb01 is
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>    begin
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>       Put_line("Hello world");
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>    end lcb01;
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> I'm running Xcode 6.0.1 (not the developer 6.1 beta) and I've installed the command line tools.
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> I'm running this on a late 2013 MacBook Pro.
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> Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
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> Cheers,
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> Leo