Re: [UPLOAD] GNAT - the GNU NYU Ada Translator.

[Michael Meskes <meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

Mark W. Eichin writes:
> See "dpkg-divert" -- it's the same way color-xterm replaces xterm. The
> old executables are moved out of the way, but kept around, so that if
> you "dpkg --remove gnat" the old ones are restored. When you do the
> install, dpkg-divert tells you explicitly what paths it is using (in
> this case I've had it add ".orig-gcc" to the end of the original
> names.)

I see.

> > Are these files supersets of the old one?
> 
> Yes. gcc (which, remember, is only the top level driver, not a
> compiler) simply adds support for the pathnames and passes used by

Yep, should have thought about that myself. Sorry. 

Michael
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