Re: GNAT on Win 95

[brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Philip Brashear)]

In article <somf-3005960732350001@dyn25b.springfield.va.us.crosslink.net>,
somf <somf@crosslink.net> wrote:
...
>4)  The readme calls for running SETPATH.BAT first,  then suggests cd to
>the examples subdirectory and doing a make.  The make successfully
>compiles the test_cl file but fails in the bind with several errrors.  The
>errors say the many files need to be recompiled.  Mostly, because
>system.ads was modifed, it says.   I tried recompiling the files by hand,
>but I am not sure where the results of these compilations are supposed to
>go.  Is there a global make file ?  Why is this happening ?  Is there
>something else that could be wrong ? 
>
>thanks in advance to anyone that can help with these questions.


Go to ftp.cs.yale.edu, work down the tree to the gnat directory, and look
in "updates".  The one you want is the last one -- it's a fix to the
Daylight Savings Time problem that Microsoft apparently created.  That will
fix you "recompile" problem (though you may have to re-install).

I'm using the Win 95 version of GNAT on a daily basis.  So far, there's
one rather obscure bug (related to the use of a discriminant to control
the length of a string) that's keeping me from running one of my tools.
I know that bug was fixed in the 3.03 version of GNAT that runs under DOS
and UNIX; however, the Win 95 version seems to be stalled at 3.01a.
(Meanwhile, the other ports are up to 3.04, and I'm getting frustrated.)

Good Luck!

Phil Brashear
CTA INCORPORATED