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-Thread: 103376,cd119e05fc97a9c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!news.highwinds-media.com!hw-filter.lga!newsfe12.lga.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "John W. Kennedy" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: WARNING: Brand-new GNAT GPL on Windows XP! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:41:18 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.193.246.216 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cv.net X-Trace: newsfe12.lga 1192120880 68.193.246.216 (Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:41:20 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:41:20 MST Organization: Optimum Online Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2431 Date: 2007-10-11T12:41:18-04:00 List-Id: John W. Kennedy wrote: > I am not certain yet that this is GNAT's fault, but I am reasonably > certain that installing it destroyed my PATH variable by overlaying GNAT > over it instead of appending or prepending. After several hours spent recovering my system, I reinstalled with no problem. That doesn't mean, however, that there isn't a problem. It remains the case that my PATH was wiped, and the GNAT GPL 2007-1 install is the only sensible suspect. -- John W. Kennedy "The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything...." -- Emile Cammaerts, "The Laughing Prophet"