[gps-devel] Problem building from Source

[Jeffrey Creem]

Preben Randhol wrote:

>Jeffrey Creem <jeff at thecreems.com> wrote on 08/03/2005 (03:42) :
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>>The problem is when compiling external_editor_module.adb that it decides 
>>that gdk.ads needs to
>>be recompiled but it can't because gdk.ali is readonly (as it should be 
>>after the install)
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>Are you sure that you don't have more than one version of gtkada on your
>machine? I mean the gps source does this include and gtkada?
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>Preben
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Pretty sure that there is only one copy installed. My solaris box is 
pretty lame with a very small hard drive so I tend to keep it pretty clean.

As far as I know GPS stopped including gtkada source some time ago and 
now uses released versions.

I tried (after my post last night) replacing that gnat src that is 
distributed with
GPS with a link to the GCC 3.4.1 source that I used to build the 
compiler I am using but that is a no go because of updates required to 
GNAT.OS_Lib that are not present in gcc 3.4 series compilers (but they 
do appear in the GCC CVS head).

It certainly does not seem to me like one can use a gcc 3.4 series 
compiler (especially where one = me) to build GPS 2.1.0 against the 
GtkAda 2.4.0.

Can anyone confirm success with this configuration?

I can certainly change to either the CVS head or 4.0 branch (unreleased) 
of GCC since this does not really need to be bullet proof (I just want 
to dabble in a few updates to GPS...most of which will probably just be 
xml file changes...but I thought I'd start from a source build for fun)