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Marc A. Criley wrote:
> I'm looking for suggestions for programatically determining what version 
> of GNAT is installed on a system.
> 
> I'd hoped there was something like "gnatmake -v" that would just display 
> a version string, but gnatmake doesn't have that feature.  I could use 
> "gcc -v" and then deduce from its version what version of GNAT was 
> installed, but I'd prefer something more closely tied to GNAT itself.  
> And since some distributions of gnat use "gnatcc" instead of "gcc", I'd 
> have to account for that as well.
> 
> It looks like I could compile a small file and then look at its .ali 
> file, since that contains a compiler version string, but I'd still like 
> to see something a little more direct.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> -- Marc A. Criley
> -- McKae Technologies
> -- www.mckae.com
> -- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out
> 

Perhaps something like

gnatlink -v | grep GNATLINK

There is info in that for both FSF derived versions and GNAT GPL 
versions...Though its form is pretty different in each case.