Re: Packaging and linking shared Ada libraries

[R Tyler Croy <tyler@linux.com>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> R Tyler Croy wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> I'm trying to figure out how to package up and use XML/Ada for openSUSE and I'm
>> having a bit of trouble trying to figure what actually needs to be packaged.
>>
>> Right now I'm packaging up the .so and the .ads files and trying to use them
>> but to no avail:
>>
>>     tyler@spinach:~/source> gnatmake -aI/usr/include/xmlada -aO/usr/lib64 test.adb -largs -lxmlada
>>     gnatmake: "dom-readers.adb" not found
>>     tyler@spinach:~/source>
>>
>> I've seen this post on SO, but it didn't help:
>>     <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3902597/how-do-i-compile-and-link-...>
>>
>> Any ideas? Thoughts/etc?
> 
> There is a full discussion of this topic in the Debian Policy for Ada:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html
> 
> In particular read the sections defining the contents of the -dev and
> runtime library packages.

Ah, he speaks!

I'll read up more on it this weekend. I was basing a lot of my work, once I got
the rpm packaging basics down, off of your libxmlada3.2-5-dev package and
maybe this document is the missing link for explaining some of the things you
did :)


Cheers

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