Re: [Q]Gnat on Linux

[Francois Godme <francois.godme@hol.fr>]

grave wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've (it seems) succeded in installing gnat 3.10p on my Linux machine,
> but when I'm trying to compile the examples I get this message from
> gnatbind :
> cannont find crt1.o
>
> Is there somebody with a solution to this problem ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Xavier

Hi,

If you are a Red Hat 5.0 user and wish to install only RPM packages, you
can make your very own Gnat-3.10p RPM package from the Debian package
gnat_3.10p-3.deb with the package converter "alien".

The command:

alien --to-rpm gnat_3.10p-3.deb

will create the package gnat-3.10p-4.i386.rpm in the directory
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386.

As it was meant for Debian, installation is not totally perfect (gnat
complains after some missing files but a
couple of 'ln -s" has solved all the problems on my Linux box.)

Here is what the command "rpm -qi gnat" says once gnat is installed:
<<<
Name        : gnat                        Distribution: Debian
Version     : 3.10p                             Vendor: (none)
Release     : 4                             Build Date: Mon Apr 27
23:57:41 1998
Install date: Tue Apr 28 00:02:35 1998   Build Host: localhost
Group       : Converted/Debian              Source RPM:
gnat-3.10p-4.src.rpm
Size        : 11148027
Summary     : The GNU NYU Ada Translator.
Description :
GNAT is the GNU NYU Ada Translator.
Not to be confused with gnats, the bug tracking system.

This version is based on patching the FSF gcc-2.7.2.3 sources with
the gnat-3.10p source patches, and building it with a previous binary
distribution.  Tools have been modified to use "gnatgcc" as the driver
and libgnatgcc instead of libgcc as the support library.

Due to problems caused by diversions in previous versions, this release
no longer "diverts" gcc, but installs "gnatgcc" as the gnat compiler.
>>>

Francois