[gtkada] Difficulties in installation

[Ludovic Brenta]

"daniel.gaudry" writes:
> Dear Sir
> 
> I am in the process of switching for MS to Linux and wants to continue my 
> programming in ada. I tried to install gtkada and was faced with the problems 
> exemplified below. I am pretty new to Linux and will appreciate any help
> Regards
> D.Gaudry
> 
> ./configure    worked well

Your problems have been reported on this list before.  GtkAda contains
some C source files.  gnatgcc cannot compile them because it is too
old and has bugs, or implements an older C standard, or something.
The workaround is to compile those C files with GCC 3.2 or newer, and
use GNAT for the Ada files.

Alternatively, I suggest you consider using Debian GNU/Linux
(http://www.debian.org).  GNAT and GtkAda have been packaged and
precompiled for you there, so all you need to do to install them is:

apt-get install gnat libgtkada2-dev

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.