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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8204369e742dac0e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:13:10 -0600 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:11:20 -0500 From: Jeffrey Creem User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL compile problems References: <1140526871.239885.322290@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <43FB4AB1.7090302@obry.net> <1140559662.166573.275930@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-vgp5MSvKixwjn8JCKn7zjtOutLG/gkq4fbyeOjD+Xm2PrDLqHGYKmhvHLnwo0j612E/R33eEC5a5MJr!Zxl7SnHoVxJ2RxM/91HkA/IRX25Dhv3E6HGMhR3SCWODYoFQk2kVbTbSTM9TDxTRRWeLg2bx7Lt+!v34= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3056 Date: 2006-02-21T19:11:20-05:00 List-Id: Szymon Guz wrote: > stuart clark napisa�(a): > >> I got a reply from AdaCore. >> >> Basically the installation didnt like that i had installed to >> c:\Program Files\GNAT, ie it doesnt like dir names with spaces. >> >> I uninstalled and re-installed to c:\GNAT and bingo all is good. >> > > Great, so if GNAT has problems like this one I don't want to think about > other that it also can have ;-( > > GNAT (like all software) has issues and limitations but it take the position that because you can't install it to a directory with a space in the name that you must then think it has other serious bugs is not really reasonable. Actually, the install in directory with spaces in the name is pretty much a windows convention. Until very recently it was possible to blue screen windows by simply doing some console output that included a few tabs and backspaces. "If it has problems like that I dont want to think about other that it also can have."