Brian Drummond wrote:
Having installed gcc (4.8) and gnat-4.8 no a new laptop, I tried installing gnat-gps. Apparently this depends on gnat-4.6 so it helpfully offered to remove gnat-4.8... I said no, but: is there a step I was missing that would allow their coexistence? or is there a false dependency that should be filed as a bug? or is there a real dependency and I need to wait until it's resolved while before trying gps again?
Unfortunately no; most Ada packages depend on gnat-4.6 for now as the transition of all packages to gnat-4.8 has barely started (music123 has transitioned). The interim solution is to install gnat-4.6 and gnat-gps and set up a chroot in which you install gnat-4.8. Then configure gnat-gps to call "schroot -- gnatmake" to compile your project. More details here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/02/msg00003.html HTH and merry Christmas! -- Ludovic Brenta.