From: Ottavio Campana <spam@campana.vi.it>
Subject: Re: autotools and ada
Date: 23 Nov 2005 11:04:42 +0100
Date: 2005-11-23T11:04:42+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43843eba$2_1@x-privat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43843759$0$20855$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>
Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Pascal Obry wrote:
>
>> Matthieu Moy a écrit :
>>
>>> I have no experience with the autotools with Ada, but I believe
>>> automake is of no use if you use gnatmake or equivalent. autoconf
>>> itself is still usefull, but it is anyway mostly language independant.
>>
>>
>>
>> No automake is still useful for Ada. gnatmake only build the tool. But
>> you probably also want to install, setup the build, create tarball for
>> distribution... all this can be done in makefiles.
>
>
> If your programs are just Ada, chances are that you can do
> software configuration more or less from within the language
> using the Ada make tools provided with your toolset.
>
> For example, use suitable package renamings.
> Replace #ifdef hacks with one-spec many-bodies.
> Place the different bodies in different directories,
> etc etc etc.
>
> autotools running on anything but well-autotested Unix platforms
> tends to grow into a maintenance nightmare AFAICS.
> The more I have to cope with auto*ed software on non-Unix
> platforms, the more I think autotools is an oxymoron.
yes, ok, but I only work on unix platforms. I don't care about windows.
I usually use autotools because they are useful to create makefiles and
to deal with tarballs.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-23 8:16 autotools and ada Ottavio Campana
2005-11-23 9:31 ` Matthieu Moy
2005-11-23 8:39 ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-23 9:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-23 10:04 ` Ottavio Campana [this message]
2005-11-23 10:14 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-23 10:28 ` Ottavio Campana
2005-11-23 10:37 ` Ottavio Campana
2005-11-23 10:44 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-11-23 11:40 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-23 12:39 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-11-24 11:17 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-24 12:01 ` Jerome Hugues
2005-11-24 14:23 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-24 13:10 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-25 5:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-25 6:28 ` Brian May
2005-11-25 14:31 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-25 18:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-25 18:53 ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-25 19:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-25 19:35 ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-25 20:59 ` Björn Persson
2005-11-25 21:43 ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-25 23:21 ` Björn Persson
2005-11-26 6:51 ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-25 16:36 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-26 1:26 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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