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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,23b61d4dfe367913 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!not-for-mail From: duke_luke@gmx.de (Duke Luke) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: graphical output on win xp with gnavi-package Date: 13 Apr 2005 08:19:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <9JOdnY_yzN3XmcHfRVn-iQ@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.162.57.133 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1113405557 29132 127.0.0.1 (13 Apr 2005 15:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10425 Date: 2005-04-13T08:19:17-07:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<9JOdnY_yzN3XmcHfRVn-iQ@comcast.com>... > >why can't i install claw? > >... > >gnatbind -x shapes.ali > >error: elaboration circularity detected > Section 11.9 of the Gnat 3.15p User Guide talks about this. They > suggest you change the structure of the program, but do say this may > be impractical. Their second suggestion is to use the "-gnatE" > option so "The behavior is then exactly as specified in the Ada 95 > Reference Manual." Claw assumes Ada 95 behavior. > Gnat used to follow the Ada rules on this, but they decided to change > the default behavior to something else with Gnat 3.15p, thus breaking the > Claw installation instructions. The Claw instructions for Gnat users > clearly need to be changed to reflect this. BTW, IMHO you should also use > -gnato to get Ada behavior on overflow. Failing to do this will not > generate any compile errors, any errors would occur at runtime. It doesn't work that way either! What does this -gnatE option mean? How is it possible that the authors of claw didnt respect that possibility? This concerns every user of gnat 3.15, doesn't it? What else can I try to solve the problem? Greetings, Lukas