Bug#493814: Dangling libgnat.so-4.3 links in adalib directory of gnat, no libgnat.so file

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

tags 493814 pending
thanks

Kay Hayen writes:
> We are compiling software not necessarily with the system default
> compiler, but based on PATH. For that purpose we figure out the
> adalib directory of the used compiler, and link against libgnat.so
> from there.

Are you trying to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH so the compiled program
finds the library?

> On Debian based compilers (seen on Ubuntu x86 too) as well as Debian
> amd64 we find that there is no libgnat.so, indication of the
> breakage is also the dangling links:
>
>> ls -l /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3/rts-native/adalib/libgnat*
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16  5. Aug 03:42
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3/rts-native/adalib/libgnat-4.3.so ->
libgnat-4.3.so.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5625476 14. Jun 12:40
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3/rts-native/adalib/libgnat.a
>
> For manually compiled gcc installations there is a libgnat.so in that
directory.

OK, I'll fix that.  I have a couple other fixes in the pipeline, too,
and I was planning to upload 4.3.1-2 next week anyway.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.