Re: texttools and standard library packages

[agent@drrob1.com]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 02:11:37 +0100, Ludovic Brenta
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

>agent@drrob1.com writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> I attempted to follow the instructions regarding an externally-built
>> library project.  But I got hung up in not having any source for a
>> library project, and even if I could get this to compile, I do not
>> know how to use a library I built myself.  So I abandoned the project
>> approach.
>>
>> But I was able to get the basic.adb example to run.  Oddly, it
>> complained that it needed libtinfo.so.5 and it actually told me where
>> it was.  To bad it could not then pull it in automatically since it
>> knew where it was.  But this line worked:
>>
>> gnatmake -g -O2 basic.adb -largs system.o curses.o /lib/libtinfo.so.5
>> -lm -lncurses
>>
>> I dumped everything into 1 directory so this worked.  Now I'll play a
>> little more
>
>
>I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve: write a program
>that uses TextTools, or work on TextTools themselves.  Because you could
>avoid the compiling and linking problems entirely by using the prebuilt
>TextTools from Debian (also available in most derivatives):
>
>aptitude install libtexttools3-dev
>
>and read /usr/share/ada/adainclude/texttools.gpr to learn how to use the
>library in your programs.
>
>Then you could concentrate on your own programming.

I am interested in using texttools, so the prebuilt tools are an
excellent option for me.  If only I knew ...

Thanks