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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13d2980593c443f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-10 08:10:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B73F96A.7C663912@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: problems installing gnat 3.13p on Windows 2000? References: <17cd177c.0108092312.3c39cb6b@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:10:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 997456225 24.141.193.224 (Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:10:25 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:10:25 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11768 Date: 2001-08-10T15:10:25+00:00 List-Id: Gautier wrote: > > An install into C:\Program Files\gnat causes errors when gnatmake > > runs, but an install into C:\gnu\gnat seems to allow successful > > builds. > > This causes problems on NT sometimes too. A "regedit" on GNAT > registration keys fixes it, by using short DOS names. The ' ' > disturbs gnatmake. The installation has been fixed in 3.14. I have also found that shell scripts made to run on NT often "break" on pathnames with blanks in them (GtkAda is where I encountered this last). UNIX people don't always program defensively in shell scripts for blanks in file names, usually because they were at one time, a rare thing under UNIX (apart from Samba shares etc.), and it's lazier programming ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg