Re: Installing GNAT-GPL-2013 and ASIS-GNAT-2013 on Ubuntu

[Yuichi Goto <goto.yuichi@gmail.com>]

Dear Ludovic

Thanks a lot. 
I'm not sure that such convenient package exists.


2013年12月7日土曜日 2時35分31秒 UTC+9 Ludovic Brenta:
> Yuichi Goto writes on comp.lang.ada:
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> > Hello, everybody.
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> > I'd like to report about installing GNAT-GPL-2013 and ASIS-GNAT-2013
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> > on Ubuntu and ask a question.
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> [...]
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> > I'm a beginner of Ada language, and this is the first time to install GNAT.
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> > So, I'm not sure wherther the method of installation is correcto or not.
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> >
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> > Could you tell me whether my installation method is correct or not?
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> > And could you tell me why those adb files are removed from GNAT-GPL-2013
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> > if my method is correct?
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> I cannot comment on the installation procedure for GNAT GPL 2012 or 2013
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> but, if your goal is to "just" program in Ada and not to learn how to
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> install and recompile everything from scratch, then I suggest you
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> install the packages from Ubuntu:
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> aptitude install gnat gnat-gps libasis2010-dev
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> and forget about configuration problems.
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> (There are other packages you can install, too, such as
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> libgtkada2.24.1-dev, etc.  If you want to know which packages are
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> available look for the packages that depend on gnat.)
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> The price you pay for this comfort is a slightly older version of GNAT,
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> which works pretty well.
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> -- 
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> Ludovic Brenta.