Questions about Alire install on Windows11

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My platform is Windosw11 with MSYS2 and Alire (version 2.0.2+9b80158) installed. Alire is using MSYS (pacman is found in PATH)).
I used “alr install --prefix=path/to/dir gnat_native gprbuild” to install the GNAT toolchain so that I can conveniently access it also without Alire. I noticed that I got the latest GNAT version (14.2.0 , same as available on the GNAT-FSF-builds in Github. However, the Gprbuild is 22.0.0, which is not the newest on GNAT-FSF-builds.

  • Why doesn’t Alire fetches the latest Gprbuild?
  • Can I use the GNAT-FSF-build to install the latest version of Gprbuild in the same directory as with “alr install --prefix<>” without Alire getting confused ?
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I am not super experienced with alire but I installed gnat and gprbuild via pacman ( long before I had alire) and alire sees them. I think alire checks for installations on your path in addition to the alire specific location.

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