Re: compiler driver that understands Ada... no

["Carl B. Constantine" <cconstan at csc dot UVic dot CA>]

*On Mon Apr 28, 2003 at 11:23:22AM -0700, Carl B. Constantine (cconstan at csc dot UVic dot CA) wrote:
> *On Fri Apr 25, 2003 at 09:29:29AM +0100, Rupert Wood (me at rupey dot net) wrote:
> > Carl B. Constantine wrote: 
> > 
> > > checking for gnatbind... /package/gnat-3.15/bin/gnatbind
> > > checking for compiler driver that understands Ada... no
> > >
> > > Well, what gives with that? How can I fix this? I thought gcc
> > > understood ada and I could use it? gnat 3.15p doesn't come with a
> > > "compiler driver" so how the hell am I supposed to build Gnat?
> > 
> > 'gcc' is the compiler driver. There'll be a gcc included in the GNAT
> > distribution - that's the one it wants.
> 
> Ok, in the distro of gnat 3.15p (for solaris sparc) I see the following
> potential candidates for this:
> 
> cc1
> cpp
> xgcc
> 
> I tried supplying ADAC=pathto/xgcc on the command line but I still get 
> 
> checking for compiler driver that understands Ada... no
> 
> during the configure. Now the path to xgcc, cc1, cpp are on my PATH so
> it should find one of them shouldn't it?
> 

I've tried all 3 of these potential compiler drivers in the ADAC
variable, I've tried just making sure they were first in the path and
let configure find them to no avail! ever time, I get:

checking for compiler driver that understands Ada... no

So how the heck am I supposed to compile GNAT when their stupid distro
doesn't work?!?!?!

I'm getting really fed up here.

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Carl B. Constantine         University of Victoria
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