Re: ANN: GCC 4.9.1 for Mac OS X Mavericks and Yosemite

[vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com]

On Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:33:19 PM UTC+1, vincent....@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:12:44 PM UTC+1, Simon Wright wrote:
> > dptrash@arcor.de writes:
> > 
> > > On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:45:54 PM UTC+2, Simon Wright wrote: 
> > >> The compiler is GPL verson 3. The runtime has the GCC Runtime
> > >> Exception, so executables built with it can be released on proprietary
> > >> terms PROVIDED THAT they make no use of the the packages from GNAT GPL
> > >> 2014, which are full GPL.
> > >
> > > 1) How can I find out if I am using something from GNAT GPL? Are these
> > > the GNAT*. packages?
> > 
> > I said:
> > 
> > ========================================================================
> > Tools included:
> > 
> > Full GPL:
> >   ASIS, AUnit, GDB, GNATColl, and GPRbuild from GNAT GPL 2014.
> > 
> > GPL with Runtime Library Exception[1]:
> >   XMLAda from the public SVN repository[2] at revision 233185
> >     (XMLAda-SVN for short).
> >   AWS from the public git repository[3] at commit
> >     e0d260e2d5dbbd93577949307935848de2390818 (AWS-git for short).
> > ========================================================================
> > 
> > Of these the only libraries you're likely to use in your own code are
> > 
> > GPL: ASIS, GNATColl
> > 
> > GPL with RTLE: XMLAda, AWS 
> > 
> > > 2) Is the Ada95 compiler in GCC 4.9 also improved?
> > 
> > It's an Ada 2012 compiler, which can be made to work in Ada 2005 mode by
> > -gnat2005 or -gnat05, in Ada 95 mode by -gnat95, and (to some extent) in
> > Ada 83 mode by -gnat83.
> > 
> > The (possibly incomplete) list of PRs fixed[1] in 4.9.1 vs 4.9.0 doesn't
> > show any Ada-related bugs, so I guess nothing major (mind you, the Ada
> > maintainers don't curate the Ada-related bugs very well). One would have
> > to check the svn repo to be sure what Ada-related changes, if any, there
> > actually were.
> > 
> > [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.9.1
> 
> I just installed it.. on Yosemite and ... yes it works.
> Thank you !
> 
> Vincent

A newbie's question : 
The compiler works fine, but I can't use the given libraries like AWS.
What do I need to do, so that Gnoga for instance can see AWS ?

Vincent