Re: Upgrading GNAT GPS 5.0 -> 5.3

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:15:51 +0300, Victor Porton wrote:
> 
>> In GNAT GPS 5.3 this works only if Messy_Client is a library project (and
>> with Linker_Options instead of Default_Switches).
>> 
>> IN GNAT 5.0 it worked for non-library projects also.
>> 
>> It looks like a bug in GNAT GPS 5.3.
> 
> If there is any bugs then in gprbuild. Try to build your project manually:
> 
>    gnatmake -P<project>.gpr

$ gnatmake -Ptest.gpr
test.gpr:10:04: no value defined for "runtime"
test.gpr:10:30: warning: undefined external reference
test.gpr:13:04: no value defined for "mode"
test.gpr:13:36: warning: undefined external reference
librdf.gpr:11:25: warning: undefined external reference
librdf.gpr:12:28: warning: undefined external reference
librdf.gpr:15:04: no value defined for "runtime"
librdf.gpr:15:30: warning: undefined external reference
librdf.gpr:16:04: no value defined for "mode"
librdf.gpr:16:36: warning: undefined external reference
gnatmake: "test.gpr" processing failed

> I am using GPS 6.0.1. I don't remember any problems in earlier versions.
> 
> Since you are under Debian a wild guess is that there might be version
> mismatch between gcc (and Ada tool chain) and GPS. GPS and gprbuild were
> always way outdated under Debian.
> 
> I did a quick check. The actual Debian version of GNAT is 4.9. gnat-gps
> wants GNAT 4.6 and Gtk 2.24! I wouldn't touch it.

Yes, there is a version mismatch. For example auto-generating body for a 
package does not work. Also Outline window in GPS does not work.

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