Re: Compiling Ada from another directory

[rotinom <rotinom@gmail.com>]

RE: Simon

You're right that the Project files are rather trivial, and the
easiest way to go.  However I am using a build tool called SCons, and
adding Ada support to that.  It has support for dozens of languages,
and handles the dependency issues that gnatmake does by itself.  I'm
just figuring out what the gnattools do under the hood, and adding
that support in.


RE: Markus

A few days late, but the basic problem is that the SCons tool runs
everything out of the directory where the SConstruct file is located
(e.g.: The build root.).

A typical tree layout is:

/src/
/build_dir/
/SConstruct

so, when you build, all commands run as if you were sitting in / .
There is only ever one "current" directory, but SCons can (and
typically does) run with multiple threads at the same time (I've run
it with up to 50 simultaneous threads).  If each Action being run were
to change directory, it would cause havok, so it is really to be
avoided at all costs.

I was having problems getting the correct commands to run as I needed
them to run from this build root.