gcc 3.4 - gnatmake has wrong gcc name

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com
Fri Mar 19 13:53:00 GMT 2004


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).
>
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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.
>
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>
Looks to me that hist handling of VMS versioning is breaking all 
versioned hosts.  What is
the regular pattern for their versioned names?

>Arno
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