Re: web/6725: --suffix breaks Ada; warning in Instatllation instruction should be strengthed

Re: web/6725: --suffix breaks Ada; warning in Instatllation instruction should be strengthed

[Florian Weimer]

The following reply was made to PR web/6725; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: starner@okstate.edu
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: web/6725: --suffix breaks Ada; warning in Instatllation
 instruction should be strengthed
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:50:24 +0200

 starner@okstate.edu writes:
 
 >>Number:         6725
 > The installation instructions mention that --suffix and kin don't
 > work on Ada binaries. This is an understatement; when --suffix=-3.1
 > is used, the new gnatmake still looks for gcc, not gcc-3.1, meaning
 > that gnatmake (and basically all Ada compilations) either fail or
 > use the wrong gcc.
 
 Then it's probably gnatmake which needs fixing, not the documentation.
 The --suffix feature seems to be not too unreasonable to me (and it
 could lead to GNAT 3.14p/GCC 3.1 interoperability on Debian).

web/6725: --suffix breaks Ada; warning in Instatllation instruction should be strengthed

[starner]

>Number:         6725
>Category:       web
>Synopsis:       --suffix breaks Ada; warning in Instatllation instruction should be strengthed
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gerald
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 19 14:36:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     starner@okstate.edu
>Release:        gcc-3.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
Debian woody ix86-linux
>Description:
The installation instructions mention that --suffix and kin
don't work on Ada binaries. This is an understatement; when --suffix=-3.1 is used, the new gnatmake still looks for gcc, not gcc-3.1, meaning that gnatmake (and basically all Ada compilations) either fail or use the wrong gcc.
>How-To-Repeat:
Build gcc with --suffix=-3.1. Run the resulting gnatmake on files. Notice it runs gcc, not gcc-3.1.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: