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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Rebuilding the RTL : Makefile.adalib?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:38:14 +0200
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Brian Drummond wrote:

> 
> Trying to get an Ada plugin working in Eclipse, I came across Gnatbench
> [3 below]. which apparently requires rebuilding the runtime library to
> build, and a Makefile that appears to be missing from my distribution.

I tried gnatbench some time ago and I didn't need to recompile the RTL. Perhaps
this was done as part of the installation process, but in that case it was
transparent to me.


> 
> "It may be useful to recompile the GNAT library in various contexts,
> [...] A special Makefile called Makefile.adalib is provided to that
> effect and can be found in the directory containing the GNAT library
> [1]"
> 
> Recently installed openSuse 11, with Gnat 4.3.1, and Makefile.adalib is
> not there.
> 
> Downloaded gcc-ada-4.3.1.tar.bz2 from
> ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.3.1/
> which doesn't have it either; either in the /adalib or /gcc/ada.
> 
> Do I need to rebuild GCC and Gnat from sources to regenerate it? Or is
> there somewhere else can I obtain it?
> 
> A web search only finds it in 3.xx versions, yet [2] shows it in use as
> late as last November, and Gnatbench 2.1.0 from [3] requires it, so I
> presume it isn't obsolete.
> 
> - Brian
> 
> [1]
>
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_ugn_unw/Rebuilding-the-GNAT-Run_002dTime-Library.html
> 
> [2]
> http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Ada/comp.lang.ada/2007-11/msg00459.html
> 
> [3]
> https://gforge.enseeiht.fr/projects/gnatbench