From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,19de7fb56fa1943f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!postnews.google.com!v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is GNU Ada active? Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3568858e-a9b3-4a8e-96d7-e25f03713dcf@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com> References: <02a86743-d112-4831-9650-aac4a9586b51@27g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <489578ee$1@news.post.ch> <9e065e50-6e11-45bb-8d9c-4e0e57060235@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <489B4A5A.2030506@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218143356 2343 127.0.0.1 (7 Aug 2008 21:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1528 Date: 2008-08-07T14:09:16-07:00 List-Id: On Aug 7, 12:22 pm, Tomek Walkuski wrote: > Yes, I know, I should set ADA_OBJECTS_PATH and so on, but, in Fedora, > use of environment variables is discouraged. That last is a pretty amazing assertion---are you sure it's accurate? I use a Fedora system, and I use environment variables the way I would on any Linux or other Unix variant (I don't see how you can get by without them). Who has said environment variables are discouraged, and where? I mean, if I'm using environment variables but was not aware that they could increase my risk of system problems or skin cancer or warts or something, I'd like to know... -- Adam