Re: Trig Function Linking Problems

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

AJAskey <AskeyAJ@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks again for the responses.  I will give the suggestions a try.
>
> I did get the trig functions to work on one newer system.  The ldd -v
> trig command showed that libgnat was not being linked - for some
> reason.  I changed my build command to:
>
> gnatmake -v trig.adb -largs -lm -lc /usr/lib/libgnat-3.4.so.1
>
> and it worked.  I'm not sure why a simple gnatmake didn't link in the
> libgnat library.  It did on the older system and this led me to try to
> explicitly link it.
>
> On the other system (the one I really need it to work on) it didn't
> work.  One reason may be that the libgnat-3.4.so.1 was not there - but
> the libgnat-3.15a.so.1 file was.  This is interesting as they appear
> to be built from the same CD.  I will try to get  the newer libgnat
> file onto that system.  Currently, they are not on the same network.

Ah yes - this is consistent with [1] and confirms that the Ada in GCC
3.2 is more or less broken.  What version of GNAT does the newer
system have?

[1] http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html#A-note-about-GNAT_0027s-shared-libraries

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.