From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9dabd984ea966de9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT on a multiboot computer References: <417DFD3C.6080209@stochastique.net> <417e16a7$0$30703$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <417f57d8$0$30704$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <417f57d8$0$30704$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <549gd.17128$Qs6.1469677@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:25:37 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1098980737 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:25:37 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:25:37 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5801 Date: 2004-10-28T12:25:37-04:00 List-Id: Adrien Plisson wrote: > Anders Wirzenius wrote: .... >> To me it seems that this configuration has to be pretty much the same as >> what you get when you install GNAT on another partition than on the >> traditional C:. I have never done such an installation of GNAT. > > i think i never installed GNAT on the traditional location. there is no > problem until you want to compile and install some add-ons like glade, > polyorb or such, since cygwin tools do not like long filenames and weird > locations. in this case 'you have to find the way'... I have developed a fondness for C:\opt for non-cygwin software: c:\opt\gnat c:\opt\sybase c:\opt\mysql etc. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg