From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6330 invoked by alias); 19 May 2002 21:56:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6286 invoked by uid 71); 19 May 2002 21:56:00 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20020519215600.6285.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: gerald@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: web/6725: --suffix breaks Ada; warning in Instatllation instruction should be strengthed Reply-To: Florian Weimer X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00576.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR web/6725; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Florian Weimer 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).