Re: gcc 3.4 - gnatmake has wrong gcc name

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>]

Arnaud Charlet wrote:

> > Would an Ada maintainer please comment on this patch and how they
> > feel about using EXEEXT since that will require adding some to
> > sdefault.adb.
> >    
>
> No particular feeling, except that it ought to be simple. We don't want to
> add too much extra complexity for a very marginal usage (and one unlikely
> to happen in practise on any Ada supported host).
>
>  
It is hard to call anything related to proper parsing of target names in 
gcc marginal usage.  Any
target name in ggcc which ends like -OS*) is subject to this breakage.

> We used to check for .exe, but changed that a while ago, because it didn't
> work under VMS (apparently because of version numbers), so this would likely
> create a regression under VMS.
>
> Richard (Kenner), do you remember this change ?
> date: 1996/11/24 16:17:57;  author: kenner;  state: Exp;  lines: +28 -21
> (Write_Program_Name): Replace previous change with code that will
> also strip off version number in VMS.
>
>  
Looks to me that hist handling of VMS versioning is breaking all 
versioned hosts.  What is
the regular pattern for their versioned names?

> Arno
>