[gps-users] Building GPS from CVS

Nicolas Setton setton at adacore.com
Thu May 26 15:12:14 CEST 2005


> The instructions are vague.  The actual wording is "...,e.g. gcc/ 
> gcc/ada".  That tells me people writing the instructions don't know  
> where the source files are on my system.  That is reasonable.  But  
> I don't know where things got installed either.

For most distributions, the source for the compiler doesn't get  
installed with the compiler, you have to download a separate package.

> I know I used the /usr/gnat/ prefix.  If I knew the actual name of  
> a file in the directory, then I could find the directory.

No, that's the prefix for the installed binaries, not for the source.

> What I was asking for was the name of a source file needed so I  
> could search effectively.  Does anybody know what source file is  
> needed?

For example, try finding prj.ads.

Nico



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