[AWS] Building AWS 1.3 with Gnat 3.14p

[Pascal Obry]

Preben,

 > Hi I saw that it says one need at least Gnat 3.15p to build AWS-1.3, but
 > since I have 3.14p on my Debian system I thought I would try it first.
 > 
 > After removing the f in -gnatw... it compiles until it gets to:
 > 
 >    === Build library
 >    Building aws
 >    Building aws-client
 >    aws-client.adb:746:45: "Append" not declared in "Stream_Element_Table"
 >    aws-client.adb:777:39: "Free" not declared in "Stream_Element_Table"
 >    gnatmake: "aws-client.adb" compilation error
 >    make[1]: *** [aws-client] Error 4
 >    make: *** [build_aws] Error 2
 > 
 > Is this because of that I use Gnat 3.14p or some other problem?

Yes probably, and the 3.15p requirement is not a dummy one, you'll have not
only problems to build AWS but some executables will fail to run properly.

 > I'm a bit reluctant to upgrade to Gnat 3.15p as this means I have to

You should plan a 3.15p upgrade !

 > manually install it (not as a package). I have the alternative 3.2, but
 > this is not good enough yet to be used.

We have never tested AWS with 3.2.

Pascal.

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