Re: Installing gnat on OS X / belay that

[Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca>]

On 2014.03.17, 18:55 , Bill Findlay wrote:
> On 17/03/2014 22:44, in article
> CY2dnUkxWd8m57rOnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@giganews.com, "Alan Browne"
> <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2014.03.17, 18:16 , Alan Browne wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I haven't touched Ada since the late 80s and I'd like to experiment with
>>> it.  I can't get gnat to install on Mavericks (10.9.2).
>>>
>>> What is the correct location to install gnat to with the ./doinstall
>>> procedure.  If I use the default { /usr/local/gnat } I get all sorts of
>>> errors - whether from a user account or an admin account.
>>
>>
>> With sudo ./doinstall it worked.  Wasn't clear from the readme...
>
> You might find that you also need the OS X BSD command line tools
> (GNAT uses the ld command, e.g.).  See:
>
> http://www.computersnyou.com/2025/2013/06/install-command-line-tools-in-osx-
> 10-9-mavericks-how-to/

Done some time ago when I needed to get my Pascal compiler running after 
the Mavericks install.

But thx.

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