[gps-users] Building GPS from CVS

[Nicolas Setton]

Hello Robert,

> Since I couldn't find a daily snapshot I wanted to try and build  
> GPS from source.  I obtained the source from CVS on my Fedora 3  
> linux box and attempted to build.  I have GtkAda 2.4.0 in /usr/ 
> local and I set the prefix for gps configure to /usr/gnat
>
> When I run the make command I get several failures.  I'm don't  
> understand one piece of the INSTALL file that says to create a link  
> called "gnat_src" and point it to something like "gcc/gcc/ada"  As  
> far as I can tell using locate, I don't have any such directory.   
> What should I actually point this link to?  If I knew the name of  
> an actual file then I could search for it.
>
> All help appreciated.


This is the directory of the sources for the GNAT compiler that you  
are using.

You should be able to obtain those sources at the place where you  
obtained the compiler (the power of the GPL ;-))

Cheers,

Nico

PS: for questions about building and contributing to GPS, I suggest  
using the mailing list gps-devel instead.