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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Help installing GCC/GNAT 4.0.2
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:15:36 +0000
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Anonymous Coward <spam@spam.com> writes:

> In article <%iYgf.12362$nG5.3500@reader1.news.jippii.net>, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:

>> Remember to change ownership and permissions of
>> /usr/lib/gcc/.../ada{include,lib}/*. They are not what you wouuld
>> like them to be (should be 0644 for files, except 0755 for shared
>> libraries, but at least on my build .ali-files were 0400).
>
> Thanks for bringing that to my attention.  All the ada files in
> adainclude were readonly.  That may have been part of my problem.

They are meant to be read-only. Tapio's point was that the
adalib/*.ali files were only readable by root; they need to be
world-readable and not writable, so 0444 would be reasonable, or 0644
if you never compile Ada as root!