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Re: GNAT nightmarre
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, gdr at integrable-solutions dot net
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:14:48 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: GNAT nightmarre
> 1) The way the GNAT build infrastructure is set up requires that
> each time one has to build a GNAT compiler then, one has to get rid of
> any existing compiler from $PATH. On some systems that is
> impractical because some OS vendors ship GNAT 1.33p which is
> installed under /usr/bin (where most utilities also reside). And
> not all users have the ability/right to get rid of that
> existing compiler.
Well certainly in our environment we do not have to do any such thing, it
is normal on my machine to have dozens of versions of GNAT around, and to
be able to build whatever I want without a problem, so this is certainly
a solvable problem.