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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Compilation induced constants in Ada code?
Date: 03 Jan 2003 17:34:38 -0500
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"Per Dalgas Jakobsen" <nospam@nospam.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get gcc to compile more robust with Ada support.
> At the moment it breaks if -suffix is used in builds (gcc becomes gcc-3.2
> or similar).
> 
> In make.adb the following line is declared:
> 	Gcc : String_Access := Program_Name ("gcc");
> 
> This causes gnatmake to look for gcc, not the suffixed version.
> 
> What will be considered a good solution to get the compilation of gnatmake
> depend on a compiler-switch?
> 
> An obvious one: Patch make.adb to change the name just before compilation.
> 
> Others?

There is a gnatmake command line switch to specify the compiler name;
you could turn usr/bin/gnatmake into a script, and set the command
line switch.

However, setting this kind of thing is what the Gnu configuration
process normally does in other Gnu tools. So I think the Right Thing
is to add a package gnat_names.ads, and have configure generate that,
and have make.adb use GNAT_Names.Gcc rather than a local variable.

That would require coordinating with ACT to get the change into their
releases.

-- 
-- Stephe