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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between gprbuild and gnatmake
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:12:46 +0100
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 1:03:52 AM UTC-5, Simon Wright wrote:

>> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
>> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
>> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
>> nowadays it's on github[1].
>
> This is misleading. gprbuild is in the GNAT GPL and supported
> releases; since 2014 it's bundled with the compiler.

Agree that binary releases from AdaCore contain a matching gprbuild. But
other binary releases didn't; for example, Debian and my Mac releases
had to use the latest source from GNAT GPL.

If you build the compiler from sources there will be a gnatmake; but
there will not be a gprbuild, because gprbuild is not part of the
compiler itself.