Re: GNAT for Debian

[chris.m.moore@amsjv.com (Chris M. Moore)]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:50:25 GMT, David Holm <david@realityrift.com>
wrote:

<snip>

>	# Make sure we install it as gnatgcc/gnatgcov as not to overwrite gcc/gcov
>	for i in `find ${S}/ada -name '*.ad[sb]'`; do \
>		sed -i -e "s/\"gcc\"/\"gnatgcc\"/g" ${i}; \
>	done

<snip>

>	# Make sure we don't overwrite the existing gcc
>	sed -i -e "s/\$(bindir)\/gcov/\$(bindir)\/gnatgcov/" "/tmp/gnat/gcc-2.8.1/Makefile"
>	sed -i -e "s/alias)-gcc/alias)-gnatgcc/g" "/tmp/gnat/gcc-2.8.1/Makefile"

<snip>

>	# Install gnatgcc, tools and native threads library
>	make LANGUAGES="c ada gcov" GCC_INSTALL_NAME=gnatgcc \
>		install-common install-libgcc install-gnatlib install-driver

Instead of doing these edits etc might it not be better to build gnat
as gcc but install it in a separate directory (/opt/gnat?) and put
Simon Wright's gnatfe script (see http://www.pushface.org/gnatfe/) in
/usr/bin?

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Chris M. Moore
Software engineer
speaking for myself