From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea451393a6c97734 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-19 05:14:01 PST Path: supernews.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine Message-ID: References: <9bkd51$530$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADDEEAA.D8F16935@bigfoot.de> <9bkt30$asm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de> Organization: LJK Software Date: 19 Apr 2001 08:13:50 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 987682436 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:13:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:13:56 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6994 Date: 2001-04-19T08:13:50-05:00 List-Id: In article <3ADE4B03.68BA6651@bigfoot.de>, Gerhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= 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.