[AWS] AWS fails to install on Debian 6.0

Brett dragoncity at aanet.com.au
Fri Dec 9 12:13:07 CET 2011


Having just installed the latest Debian "Squeeze" 6.0, I decided to try
the latest ADA & AWS to see their current state.

I downloaded a fresh install 'package' from AdaCore and:

1) Ada installed without problems giving me:

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GPS 5.0.1 (20110113) hosted on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
GNAT 4.4.5

the GNAT Programming Studio

This is the GPS GPL Edition.
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This works well, BUT 

2) and then to install AWS ! -- failure ! See below.

BTW: I checked up on the message

"Can not generate system tags. The test are disabled"

and according to the reply it indicates that Python or some files
are missing. Python is NOT missing, but not being a Python programmer
I have no idea if any Python files are missing. And of course the 
error message does not indicate if its fatal. 

AWS is a useful ADA enhancement package, but it's not very useful if one 
can't install it! Perhaps the install procedures might need revising in
some way to offer a more reliable install method :-)
 
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brett at debian:~$ cd Gnat2011
brett at debian:~/Gnat2011$ ls
AdaCore.tar  AWS  GNAT_GPL
brett at debian:~/Gnat2011$ cd AWS
brett at debian:~/Gnat2011/AWS$ ls
aws-gpl-2.10.0-src  aws-gpl-2.10.0-src.tgz
brett at debian:~/Gnat2011/AWS$ cd aws-gpl-2.10.0-src/
brett at debian:~/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src$ ls
AUTHORS     CHANGE_584577  demos  include   makefile.checks  MANIFEST    shared.gpr  support           web_elements
aws.checks  config         docs   INSTALL   makefile.conf    readme.txt  src         templates_parser  win32
aws.gpr     COPYING        gps    makefile  makefile.setup   regtests    ssl         tools

brett at debian:~/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src$ su
Password: 
root at debian:/home/brett/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src# make setup
creating auto.cgpr
gprbuild: "check_config" up to date
Setup OS specific definitions
Can not generate system tags. The test are disabled
root at debian:/home/brett/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src# make build
tools.gpr:87:58: literal string expected
tools.gpr:88:11: undefined attribute "executable"
tools.gpr:89:15: expected "tools"
tools.gpr:95:04: unexpected text following end of project
gprbuild: "tools/tools.gpr" processing failed
make: *** [build-native] Error 4
root at debian:/home/brett/Gnat2011/AWS/aws-gpl-2.10.0-src# 
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Cheers,
Brett 


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