Re: GNAT for Debian

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

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:13:01 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol
<randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:

>Chris M. Moore wrote:
>> 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?
>
>No!
>
>It is much better to have gnatgcc gnatmake etc! Then it makes everything
>work without any hickup or tricky setup.

But this script provides gnatgcc, gnatmake etc.  /usr/bin/gnatgcc and
/usr/bin/gnatmake would both be symbolic links to the gnatfe script.
This script magically transforms gnatgcc to gcc and gnatmake to
gnatmake but using the versions in the alternate directory.

Surely it's better to do this outside of gnat rather than doing a
global edit on the source.

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Chris M. Moore
Software engineer
speaking for myself