Re: Gnat Installation conflict on Linux

[Radu Stefanescu <Radu.Stefanescu@sophia.inria.fr>]

I currently have an alias A="export PATH=/usr/local/gnat/bin:$PATH" ...

Regards,
Radu

lode_leroy at hotmail dot com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had similar problems... the problem is that the tgz version is
> replacing gcc. The RPM version is compiled differently, it's called
> gnatgcc (or so).
> 
> My solution is to put /usr/gnat/bin in the beginning of the path,
> in the .bashrc for my "ada" account, and leave the other accounts as is.
> This allows 'root' to compile other stuff with gcc-2.9.x...
> 
> -- lode
> Using slackware 8.0 !
> PS: you might want to upgrate to emacs21.1 from slackware.com - current
> 
> Nazgul wrote:
> > Hi, I'm installing Gnat 3.14p under slackware linux, via a .tgz
> >
> > The problem is, if I install it under /usr/gnat, and insert /usr/gnat/bin in
> > front of the path, then when I want to use gcc to compile a .c file, for
> > example, then the /usr/gnat/bin 2.8.1 version is executed.
> >
> > If I append /usr/gnat/bin at the end of the path, then the newer system
> > installed version of gcc (2.95) runs with the command 'gcc', but when I trie
> > to compile Ada with gnatmake, it doesn't work, gcc reports "No Ada compiler
> > installed on the system"
> >
> > Any way to make them both work?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >

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