On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:08:13AM -0500, Adam Jensen wrote: > Hi, > > I installed the gnat-4.8 package and I noticed that all of the executables > were prefixed with an "e", e.g. egcc, egnat, egnatmake, etc. This introduces > some awkwardness into building other software. Is there a good reason to have > it this way? Or, to put it another way, would it break anything or cause > problems elsewhere if I were to modify the port Makefile so that the program > names are not prefixed with a leading "e"?
Yeah, this is on purpose to avoid hiding the basesystem compilers. As a general rules, most ports of GNU software have binaries prefixed by e (ie for examples devel/gdb).. When you need to use a specific compiler, you're supposed to use env variables like CC=egcc CXX=eg++ etc.. Landry
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