Re: A bug in gnat/gcc 3.3.3?

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Adrian Hoe wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
> 
> So far, I've not encountered any problems with 3.3.3. But I do hear bad
> comments about it. Perhaps this bug is one of them and the first I
> encountered so far.
> 
> Considering to use 3.15p, can I overwrite gnat 3.3.3 with it?

NO! You need the compiler wich comes with SuSE for other things. Install the
Ada Compiler into /opt/ada and use something like this to
your /etc/profiled.d/ directory:

if [[ (${USER} != root) && (-z ${_ada_bash_} ) ]] ; then

        declare -r _ada_bash_=loaded

        echo "Set Ada Environment"

        PATH=/opt/ada/bin:${PATH}
        PATH=.:${PATH}

        # add other ada related init here.
fi

Pleas note the use of  (${USER} != root)! The root use should continue to
use the origninal compiler.

> Is there 
> any rpm for SuSE 9.1?  I just hate bootstrapping from source 

Bootstrapping the compiler with SuSE 9.1 is easy. Follow my instructions on
ada.krischik.com - or better use my build.gcc batch
(http://ada.krischik.com/build-gcc). Even works for 64 bit systems :-).

> and I can 
> always not getting shared library working.

Shared libs are done by (cut from my build.gcc):

                if (( ${?} == 0 )) ; then
                        make -C gcc gnatlib-shared
                \
                        2>&1 |  tee "../compile.gnat.${in_Config}.log";
                fi;

With Regards

Martin

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