From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,
	FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,cc65ab136f46904d
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!v16g2000vbq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT.Serial_Communications
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:12:53 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: 
 <140e4937-ba03-4384-8206-f24b88de1b1c@v16g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>
References: 
 <d79ca03a-af82-410f-9add-6f6a817b9512@l30g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>
 <d4dc0334-8b72-4c16-84df-a02d99f18cd9@e26g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>
 <io9uan$4ej$1@dont-email.me>
 <31dd80b2-3fd3-4078-8774-c396a52c94a0@r6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>
 <ioa408$9im$1@dont-email.me>
 <0d509f1c-4ca7-4595-a026-65c108558d76@bl1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
 <iobk21$dis$1@dont-email.me>
 <abeb3bf6-0587-4572-af6e-85d2e14a32c8@e8g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>
 <35515c03-f565-4fc4-ac1c-e9b7268123b3@dn9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
 <iobtpc$a0$2@dont-email.me>
 <1144e8e4-4193-4ffd-a8d2-145c38993eb2@p16g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>
 <iocbkj$c9n$1@dont-email.me>
 <6301289c-f450-4d7f-8391-01e17d2555b9@z27g2000prz.googlegroups.com>
 <be0e8769-2eb5-46ae-9f8c-416764e69e88@j35g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
 <iok2th$cpe$1@dont-email.me> <iongnd$fpa$1@dont-email.me>
 <m24o5sw7lx.fsf@pushface.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.46.232.121
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1303377178 26042 127.0.0.1 (21 Apr 2011 09:12:58
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:12:58 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: v16g2000vbq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.46.232.121;
 posting-account=28F2IwkAAACL1Z5nRC-dE7zuvWdbWC7P
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.16)
 Gecko/20110323 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.16,gzip(gfe)
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19916
Date: 2011-04-21T02:12:53-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Apr 21, 5:28=A0am, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> Brian Drummond <br...@shapes.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > (1) modify g-sercom-linux.adb to do the job, or at least, what it's
> > supposed to (not corrupt settings unnecessarily). Then ... what has to
> > happen to regenerate the GNAT.Serial_Communications package? Rebuild
> > libada, or does the change happen next time you build your app? I am
> > showing my ignorance of Gnat here...
>
> Put the modified g-sercom-linux.adb in the compiler's search path, then
> use the "-a" flag to gnatmake.
>
> (a) I think that gprbuild may not support the -a flag?
>
> (b) don't say "gnatmake -f" for a full rebuild or you'll end up
> rebuilding the RTS!

yep its going to be a mod to g-sercom.ad(sb), thanks for the help
guys. The obsolete interface thing is quite funny given now that it is
controlling robots and all sorts of automation. I want to say
something funny about this, but I guess I'll just modify the package!