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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Installing ada-mode 6.2.1 on Debian Buster
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:59:57 +0000
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> By default it installs executables in the same directory as the "gnat"
> binary. Thus it needs root privs (as any system install does).

This may be a macOS (or Simon!) weirdity, but both GCC 9.1 & GNAT CE
2019 installed under my ownership (in the staff group and the wheel
group rsp) so I have no problem installing the ada-mode executables.