Re: GNAT 3.14p and Red Hat 7.2

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

KennethNelson@attbi.com (Ken Nelson) writes:

><snip> 
> I have a working copy of GNAT 3.13p and gcc 2.8.1
> 
> 10. However, make CC=gcc CFLAGS="-O2" gnattools  produces:
> 
> <snip>> a-adaint.o: In function `__gnat_tmp_name':
> a-adaint.o(.text+0x42c): the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use
> `mkstemp'
> g-os_lib.o: In function `gnat__os_lib__create_temp_file':
> g-os_lib.o(.text+0x2f1): the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use
> `mkstemp'

These are just warnings about potential security problems. They should
be ignored.

> a-gmem.o: In function `__gnat_gmem_a2l_initialize':
> a-gmem.o(.text+0xc4): undefined reference to `convert_addresses'
> a-gmem.o: In function `__gnat_gmem_read_bt_frame':
> a-gmem.o(.text+0x20d): undefined reference to `convert_addresses'
> make[2]: *** [../gnatmem] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/free_sw/gcc-2.8.1-gnat-3.14p/ada' make[1]: *** [gnatmem]
> Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/free_sw/gcc-2.8.1-gnat-3.14p' make: *** [gnattools] Error 2

Just comment out 'gnatmem' in the makefile, so it doesn't get built.
You won't need it for anything

> The function convert_addresses (from RH 6.2) appears to no longer be
> apart of the binutils package in Red Hat 7.2. 

It's provided in a patch to binutils in the GNAT source distribution.

> The previous two errors can be fairly easily worked-around, but I
> don't recall exactly what I did to do that (in a previous build).

Just ignore them :).

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-- Stephe