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From: Harry Tucker <harry.tucker@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: How to fix 'Could not locate executable on path: gnatmake'
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 06:05:41 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 7, 3:33=A0am, resander <kresan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I installed (by doinstall) the latest version of free GNAT GPL from
> Libre into directory /usr/gnat/bin. After install this contains:
>
> ken@meijin-desktop:/usr/gnat/bin$ ls
> addr2line =A0gdb =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gnathtml.pl =A0gnatprep =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 g=
prof
> c++ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gdbserver =A0gnatkr =A0 =A0 =A0 gnatstub =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 gps
> cbrowser =A0 gnat =A0 =A0 =A0 gnatlink =A0 =A0 gnatxref =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 g=
ps_exe
> cpp =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gnatbind =A0 gnatls =A0 =A0 =A0 gprbuild =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 i686-pc-linux-gnu-c
> ++
> dbimp =A0 =A0 =A0gnatcheck =A0gnatmake =A0 =A0 gprbuild_debug =A0 i686-pc=
-linux-gnu-g
> ++
> g++ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gnatchop =A0 gnatmem =A0 =A0 =A0gprclean =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 i686-pc-linux-gnu-
> gcc
> gcc =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0gnatclean =A0gnatmetric =A0 gprclean_debug =A0 i686-pc=
-linux-gnu-
> gcc-4.3.4
> gccbug =A0 =A0 gnatelim =A0 gnatname =A0 =A0 gprconfig =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0obj=
dump
> gcov =A0 =A0 =A0 gnatfind =A0 gnatpp =A0 =A0 =A0 gprconfig_debug
>
> I added /usr/gnat/bin to the (Ubuntu 10.04) bashrc startup script of
> the user 'ken' from which I want to use GPS. The echo command
>
> echo $PATH
> /usr/gnat/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/
> bin:/usr/games
>
> issued after login to 'ken' shows that /usr/gnat/bin is on the path.
>
> gnatmake works from the command line for a small test program main.adb
> in adatestproj directory:
>
> ken@meijin-desktop:/home$ ls
> ken =A0kr =A0lost+found =A0meijin
>
> ken@meijin-desktop:/home$ cd ken
> ken@meijin-desktop:~$ ls
> adatestproj Documents =A0Music Videos...
>
> ken@meijin-desktop:~$ cd adatestproj
> ken@meijin-desktop:~/adatestproj$ ls
> main.adb main.gpr
> ken@meijin-desktop:~/adatestproj$ gnatmake main.adb
> gcc -c main.adb
> gnatbind -x main.ali
> gnatlink main.ali
>
> but from GPS 'Could not locate executable on path: gnatmake' appears
> when I request compile file from adaptestproj directory.
>
> I cannot see what is wrong. Would be grateful for advice.

Try looking at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables
and the section on persistent environment variables.