Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

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Until such time as GNAT is merged with the "normal" gcc distribution*, it
would be very handy to make sure that the two compilers don't collide in any
way. There are languages supported with gcc (C++, most notably) that aren't
supported in GNAT, so one might want to have both compilers available. (That
and my gcc compiler is targeted to a Mips machine & I want GNAT for the
PC/NT platform) Maybe someone is listening? :-)

I've found the Cygnus installation stuff here, so I can get back to where I
was if something hoses up. I believe I will attempt the install and see what
I break. If anything unusual happens, I'll report back here.

*(Will this ever happen? Ada being part of the regular gcc distribution,
that is. It would seem like it would be putting Ada in front of lots more
people - don't know what that may do so the ACT business model, though...)

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"Gerhard H�ring" <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de> wrote in message
news:3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de...
> Btw. the GNAT distribution from the Ada for Linux people have called
> GNAT's gcc "gnatgcc" for a reason. On FreeBSD, it's called "adagcc". The
> purpose of this is to avoid collisions with the "normal" gcc (usually
> 2.95.2 vs. GNAT's 2.8.1). IMHO it would be wise for the ACT folks to
> adopt this, as they are likely to be a at least on revision behind wrt
> the main gcc release.
>