Re: GNAT GPL 2011 on Lion

[Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 22/07/2011 00:11, in article CA4E70AD.EB34%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk,
"(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On 21/07/2011 23:48, in article m2k4bbi72v.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon Wright"
> <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> 
>> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 21/07/2011 20:17, in article CA4E39BC.EAEF%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk,
>>>> "(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 21/07/2011 20:12, in article m239hz1m8p.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon
>>>>> Wright"
>>>>> <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ... Or the perils of being an early adopter.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'm trying to run GNAT GPL 2011 under MacOS X 10.7, "Lion",
>>>>>>>> released yesterday.  The Ada compilation itself seem to be OK,
>>>>>>>> but I fall at this hurdle:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> "gcc: error trying to exec 'as': execvp: No such file or directory"
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This might be just a pathname issue, or something more serious.
>>>>>>>> Can anyone suggest a cause or a fix?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I wonder whether we need a new Xcode as well as the OS? (I had my
>>>>>>> fingers crossed as I updated, perhaps I should have crossed my toes as
>>>>>>> well)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> OK, going for Xcode 4.1, free download from Mac App Store ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ditto, but it needs Java, which is another download , taking its time ...
>>>> 
>>>> And seems to have had no effect. 8-(
>>> 
>>> Still installing Xcode here .. App Store was temporarily broken, it
>>> said. Also, when App Store says "installed" what it means is it's put
>>> all 3 Gb of 'Install Xcode' in the Applications directory, waiting for
>>> you to actually run it. Grr.
>> 
>> I had to reinstall ply (lex and yacc in Python), because we now are
>> running Python 2.7, and Java, because my code generator needs them. But
>> otherwise, no problems.
> 
> Do you mean that having done that, Ada is now operational?

Replying to my self, having completed the installation at last:
Yes, it does mean that GNAT GPL 2011 works under Lion, at any rate for the 3
large programs I have now successfully compiled and run.

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