Re: GNAT Installation Problems

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

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:

> I've tried installing GNAT GPL 2015 on El Capitan (OS X 10.11) at
> /Ada/GNAT and it works fine with PATH set to start with /Ada/GNAT/bin
> (or with /Ada/Gnat/bin, just in case there was some
> case-sensitivity). So at this point I'm baffled.
> 
> Can you
> 
> (a) 'echo $PATH' and show us the results?
> 
> (b) 'DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1 /Ada/GNAT/bin/gnatmake -v' and show us  the
>     results? (in case there's some weird dynamic library messing things
>     up)

It will take me a bit to do this.Thinking that maybe the problem was
fixed in GNAT 2015, I deleted the 2014 files, downloaded GNAT 2015, and
ran doinstall. It failed almost immediately. As the error message
requested, I reported the problem to AdaCore. The response was that, in
spite of what their website says, Lion is very old and they're not sure
if GNAT 2015 works on it. (They didn't say the "in spite of" part.)

Two things to mention. (1) I'm not one to complain about free service.
That a compiler of the quality of GNAT is available for free is amazing.
If AdaCore can has information that's not quite up to date, that's o. k.
with me. (2) I'm going to bite the bullet real soon and move to
something a lot later than Lion.

Charlie
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