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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:57:18 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:


>  /usr/local should be supported automatically or at least easily.
> What comes to setting ADA_PROJECT_PATH in a Makefile:

As the name 'local' says (to me, at least), what is in /usr/local
should be treated as local. Hence a global compiler should not at
all have knowledge of, or be interest in, what is in /usr/local.

> Imagine that I have installed some Ada library under /usr/local (the distro 
> provides a precompiled binary, but I want to enable a feature X required by 
> package A). Then I compile A. If the library and the package A were written in 
> C, I would do the following to compile A:
> ./configure && make && make install
> 
> As they are written in Ada, I do:
> ./configure --with-additional-ada-project-path=/usr/local/share/ada/adainclude
> 
> And what if the configure script does not support the above mentioned option?

I do hope that use of configure etc is rare with Ada. Reason 1:
Ada itself has good configuration facilities. Reason 2: Make is pretty
good in steering them. Ada compilation systems tend to have project
compilation management programs. Reason 4: Unlike Ada, auto* is horribly
non-portable across OS toolsets, and has been shown to contribute to the
problem it is supposed to solve.


Georg