Re: GNAT Installation Problems

[csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson)]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) writes:
> 
> >> Much more likely to be some sort of path problem; all Intel Macs have
> >> been 64-bits.
> >> 
> >> What does "gcc -v" say? "gnatmake -v"? "gnatls -v"?
> >> 
> >> Do you have DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH set?
> >
> > I've searched two manuals, GNAT GPL User's Guide and GPS Documentation,
> > for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH without success. I don't remember that running
> > doinstall mentioned anything about setting this environment variable.
> > Can you point me to an explanation of what I'm supposed to do or just
> > tell me?
> 
> I'm just poking around here!

I greatly appreciate the time you're spending on this.

> As a starter ..
> 
> Please run "gcc -v" and tell us what it says.
> 
> Please run "gnatmake -v" and tell us what it says.
> 
> Please run "gnatls -v" and tell us what it says.

All three of the above gave

     Segmentation fault: 11

> Please run "echo $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH" and tell us what it says.

This echoed a blank line. i. e. undefined.

> And, while I'm at it, please run "ld --help" and tell us what it says
> (in case you don't have the command line tools installed).

I don't know if you meant the two hyphens. I ran it with two and with
one. In each case, I got

     ld64: For information on command line options please use 'man ld'.

> What does "uname -a" say?

     Darwin Emilys-MacBook.local 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2:
     Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_
     X86_64 x86_64

That's all one line. I had to break it because my News reader limits
lines to 72 characters. Emilys-MacBook is the name of the computer,
cleaned up a bit for Unix.

Thanks again.

Charlie
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