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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 03:02:16 -0700 (PDT)
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> On Mon, 17 May 2010 00:05:39 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> > Or that each -dev package for an Ada library should provide an
> > individual project file for each C library referenced? =A0That seems li=
ke
> > a *lot* of work.
>
> Not really, I did it for GtkAda manually. But it is possible to write a
> simple script. The only problem is that many libraries use "-" and "." in
> the library name. The script could replace them with "_" in the project
> name.

GtkAda is particularly difficult. From one release to the next, the
result of /usr/bin/gtk-config (or is it pkg-config?) can, and does,
change. To implement your suggestion, the script would have to use
that as the input.

--
Ludovic Brenta.