Re: ANN: AdaBrowse 2.0

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Tue, 7 May 2002 09:01:34 -0500, David C. Hoos wrote:

> Yes I do.  I normally have no need for any other C compiler than that
> which is
> part of the GNAT distribution.  Therefore, I make /usr/gnat/bin, the third
> directory in my path (after ., and ~/bin).  The only times I use C in my
> work
> directly, it's usually for system-dependent code used to aid in creating an
> Ada
> binding to some functionality in the C run-time.
> 
> On the few occasions I've needed gcc 2.95 (i.e. to compile some application
> or library that needs it), I do so in another account that doesn't need to
> compile with GNAT.

To me this sounds much more involved than simply to name it gnatgcc and
use it as such. Of course when gnat is integrated with 3.1 things will
be easy again. At least I need a C compiler to compile the kernel or
sound support etc... I also need the g77 compiler from time to time and
this is version 2.95 and thus need gcc 2.95. The C++ compiler I don't
need though :-)

Anyway normal users should use the rpm and deb packages
as they are much easier to install/uninstall and will keep the system's
integrety. So it would be nice if the Adabrowse program has a :

   compiler_command : constant String := "gcc ";

and use this throughout the program. Bcs then one only have to change
it at one place and not 4-5 places as one must do now :-) However if one
wants to distribute binaries, then perhaps a command line argument would
be at it's place to specify which compiler to use.

Preben