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From: Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
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Subject: Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file?
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:56:38 +0200
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:11:25 +0200
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> 3rd party means that other people are to build the library. 

Well, Debian & Ubuntu have the required library/package, but it's not in e.g.
Fedora, that's why I considered to include sources.

> I don't trust generated bundings except for very simple cases.  

I agree and plan to provide thick bindings more suitable for Ada.

> Anyway, the best way to manage C libraries is to define an externally built
> library project and forget about the mess.

Ok. Thank you for the input.

> Gnatmake will do the rest. No C source code in the project.

You don't recommend GPRbuild?


Sincerely,
Gour


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