Thank your lucky stars for gprbuild

Thank your lucky stars for gprbuild

[R. Tyler Croy]

A lot of my day job involves a C project, not a particularly big one but 
it's a fundamental service to our business and requires changes to keep up 
with our Ruby stack.

I wasted at least 5 hours today fighting with GNU/Make, which by itself 
isn't so terrible but for non-trivial projects it can turn into a disaster 
pretty quickly.


Everything I was fighting with could have been solved in maybe 80 lines 
spread across two or three GPR files.



Grumble, I needed to vent :)

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- R. Tyler Croy
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Re: Thank your lucky stars for gprbuild

[Stephen Leake]

"R. Tyler Croy" <tyler@linux.com> writes:

> Everything I was fighting with could have been solved in maybe 80 lines 
> spread across two or three GPR files.

You can use gprbuild to build C files; maybe that would help in your
project?

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-- Stephe

Re: Thank your lucky stars for gprbuild

[R. Tyler Croy]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:26:14 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> "R. Tyler Croy" <tyler@linux.com> writes:
> 
>> Everything I was fighting with could have been solved in maybe 80 lines
>> spread across two or three GPR files.
> 
> You can use gprbuild to build C files; maybe that would help in your
> project?

It certainly would, but the lack of good packages for tools like gprbuild 
on platforms other than Debian makes that a tricky sale internally.

One of the days... :)

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- R. Tyler Croy
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    Code: http://github.com/rtyler

Re: Thank your lucky stars for gprbuild

[Björn Persson]

R. Tyler Croy wrote:

> It certainly would, but the lack of good packages for tools like gprbuild
> on platforms other than Debian makes that a tricky sale internally.

I do of course not know what platforms you would need it on, but GPRbuild is 
available in Fedora nowadays. It was packaged by Pavel Zhukov.

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