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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,3bff6309ef5ab3f X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: resander Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to fix 'Could not locate executable on path: gnatmake' Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 11:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4275ffb0-c23f-4201-a8ce-651746999763@e35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <82ljbvkkx0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <1d2ff9bc-9729-4c4f-a34c-de3c9258cd23@b18g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.5.106.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1273342752 17661 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2010 18:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 18:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.5.106.54; posting-account=6pd0vwoAAADNCHE_RCgO6D_xHxKamMYv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11414 Date: 2010-05-08T11:19:12-07:00 List-Id: On May 8, 5:25=A0pm, Britt Snodgrass wrote: > On May 8, 12:43=A0am, Stephen Leake > wrote: > > > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > > > BTW, never edit project files using GPS GUI. Use gedit, vi, ... sed (= :-)) > > > Or just GPS file editor; just avoid the GPS project wizard. > > Yes, I also prefer to use GPS's file editor because it helps to flag > syntax errors in gpr files and I can see the package list in GPS's > outline view. > > I avoid the specialized project properties editor/GUI/wizard because > it seems to create extraneous case statements in every project file > package, for each scenario variable, even when the case selections are > the same. =A0This can make the gpr file five times longer and much > harder to maintain. =A0It also used to write the case selections in > reverse alphabetical order but I think that has been fixed. > > - Britt Yesterday afternoon I installed into /usr/local and found that GPS could be invoked from the GUI menu on Ubuntu 10.04. I then closed the system. This morning (Saturday) I found that about half the functions on the Ubuntu menu had stopped working, for example all items on the Places menu (generally file and directory inspection functions), Software Sources, Synaptic Manager, Update Manager, system Monitor and more. I invoked some of these from the command line and always got error 'cannot find libstdc.6.so version so-and-so in usr/local/lib'. Even the apt functions got clobbered by the same condition, so I had no way of reinstalling any package. Had to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04. The install of GNAT GPL into a /usr/local that I did as last thing yesterday is a likely culprit. but I am not pointing a finger. I am using the codeblocks IDE (C/C++, but no Ada) which provides updates via the Universe repositories in Ubuntu. To get updates a user only puts repository details into etc/apt/source.list and sets authentication data in a keyring. Then the updates arrive as normal Ubuntu updates. An update takes a minute or two and then a user can reenter the updated codeblocks IDE without having to lift a finger. Very simple, convenient and foolproof. Can GNAT GPL with GPS be updated in a similar fashion for Ubuntu (and maybe others too)? Most users from the Windows world, myself included, expect this operation to be simple.