Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de>, Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard.nospam@bigfoot.de> writes:
> Marin David Condic wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks. That makes a certain amount of sense as long as no Registry entries
>> get changed. (Any searches will follow the PATH environment variable to
>> whatever executables & libraries are needed.)
>> 
>> I noticed that in your example, you have GNAT on a drive labeled "D". (Usual
>> installation being to the "C" drive, naturally.) Is it necessary to have
>> them both on different drives? Or is this just a case of the way it happened
>> to end up in your environment?
> 
> The drives do not matter. It's just a matter of having to currently
> preferred software 1st in the path, so that the correct gcc gets called.
> 
> 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.

In the long run the main gcc release will have GNAT included, right ?
Unless one absolutely requires the "very latest" GNAT, there should be
no need for multiple versions.