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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Problems by GNAT installation on Linux Mandrake OS
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> writes:

> David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
> >> You have to use:
> >> 
> >> gnatmake and gnatgcc not gcc.
> > 
> > This is incorrect information.  There is no gnatgcc in the 3.14p
> > distribution as it comes from ftp.cs.nyu.edu.  The correct solution is
> > that which I provided earlier, viz.:
> 
> Hmm. Very odd that they don't call it gnatgcc. In both the Debian
> package and the older Redhat package the gcc is named gnatgcc to avoid
> this problem.
> 
> > The solution to the problem is to add /usr/gnat/bin in your path
> > before the directory where the standard gcc is located,
> > probably /usr/bin
> 
> Not a good solution either because then you will use the gcc of
> /usr/gnat/bin if you compile a C or C++ program too. F.ex when you need
> to compile the kernel.
> 
> I would rather do:
> 
> gnatmake --GCC=/usr/gnat/bin/gnatgcc 
> 
> after renaming the /usr/gnat/bin/gcc to /usr/gnat/bin/gnatgcc to avoid
> other problems.

Or (as I have said before) see http://www.pushface.org/gnatfe/ for a
way of having several GNAT installations at the same time and choosing
which to use on the basis of an environment variable.