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From: Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
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Subject: Re: question on installing gnat on linux mint
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 12:13:11 +0200
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On 09/03/2017 11:24 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
> My question is, why does it want to install gcc-4.9
> when Linux comes with gcc 5.4 on it? Does this mean gnat 4.9
> is build with earlier gcc? Will installing gnat change/overwrites
> the version of gcc on my system? or does it install its
> own gcc 4.9 somewhere else?

Linux Mint is based on Debian. The gnat packages in Debian are very 
outdated, even for the latest Debian release a few weeks ago (e.g. a 2 
year old gnat-gps). I had no problems installing it manually from this site:

http://libre.adacore.com

Default installation is /usr/gnat, which doesn't overwrite any installed 
C gcc compiler programs.

I wrote a script, /usr/bin/gnat, to run gps:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/gnat/bin
./gps

A logical link didn't work, because the gps starter program doesn't find 
gps_exe then. Might be possible to add /usr/bin/gnat to the system path 
as well.

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