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> And I gather GNAT project files were introduced exactly because using
> hundreds of -I switches was felt inconvenient, to say the least. So
> how come they are useless?

Second time someone counts *hundreds* of -I switches. I'd love to see
that list :-)
Largest count of -I switches I've ever seen is around ten.
Even so I think I prefer a single gnatmake command.
Even if it's like those two-page long SQL queries kept religiously in
banks, insurance companies (and now telecoms I guess :-)
Usually I include the build command as a comment in the main program.
A stored command, a project file, I see no difference, except the
latter is yet another tool.
But I accept project files hapilly for large lists.
The hard part is finding out the paths anyway.