Hard wiring? was Re: [gtkada] GtkAda 2.0 on Linux: build problem

[Eric Streit]

hi,

you could remove "config.cache" first, before "./configure"

hope this help,

Eric!
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Le mer 11/09/2002 à 00:52, chris.danx a écrit :
> Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> >>Is the location it expects gnatmake hardwired into the configure script? 
> >>  If so what can I do to tell it where it really is?
> > 
> > It's not hardwired: it can be anywhere, and there's no /usr/bin knowledge at
> > all.
> 
> ok.
> 
> > The configure script is simply checking whether 'gnatmake' (wherever it is on
> > the PATH) works properly.
> > 
> > Now, if gnatmake is not on your path, or doesn't work properly, then configure
> > is simply doing it's job by not allowing you to try getting further.
> 
> Fair does!  The system is setup like this
> 
> gnat 3.13p is in /usr/bin
> gcc 3.3 snapshot is in /usr/local/experimental/gcc/bin
> 
> with this in mind I did
> 
> export PATH="/usr/local/experimental/gcc/bin:$PATH"
> 
> followed by "echo $PATH"
> 
> bash: 
> /usr/local/experimental/gcc/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde2/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/opt/gnome/bin
> 
> 
> Then "gnatmake -v" gave
> 
> GNATMAKE 3.3 20020910 (experimental) Copyright 1995-2002 Free Software 
> Foundation, Inc.
> 
> [rest skipped as it's very very long]
> 
> Next I ran ./configure and got the following output
> 
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for merge... (cached) /usr/bin/merge
> checking whether merge works correctly...... yes
> checking for diff... (cached) /usr/bin/diff
> checking for the correct diff option... -u
> checking for patch... (cached) /usr/bin/patch
> checking for the correct patch option... -f
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gnatmake... (cached) /usr/bin/gnatmake
> checking that your gnat compiler works with a simple example... no
> configure: error: /usr/bin/gnatmake test failed at compile time! Check 
> your configuration.
> 
> 
> Cleaned the directory to be safe (make clean), then called ./configure 
> and got the above output again!
> 
> What's wrong?
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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