Re: Recompiling?

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

Harald Korneliussen a écrit :
> I see. On a side note, it's not the only thing I have to fix when
> reinstalling. The projects I've made with autoconf/automake now refuse
> to work. Pretty sweet for a system designed to maintain compatibility,
> huh?

Yes, the autotools routinely break compatibility with previous releases
of themselves.  Isn't it ironic?  Makefiles were invented to circumvent
the deficiencies of C (namely the lack of separate compilation); the
autotools were invented to circumvent the deficiencies of make (namely
the lack of portability), and now the autotools are revealing their own
deficiencies.

> There's another pretty basic question I want to ask, about the correct
> and portable way to install something like the Booch components as a
> shared library. The package is just a bunch of source files. I suppose
> I could copy them to every project that I use booch on, but that seems
> so unclean and wasteful.
>
> Any suggestions?

Package the Booch components for your distribution.  Follow the GNU Ada
Environment Specification[1].  Provide a GNAT project file, as
explained
in detail in [2].

[1] http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/ada/gnae.php
[2] http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.