Re: Ncurses and Ada

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 12.03.12 11:20, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Simon Wright wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> Julian Leyh writes:
>>> BTW, where did you get /usr/share/ada/adainclude from? Normally, the
>>> Ada library packages should install to /usr/include/<foo> and
>>> /usr/lib/<foo> and their project files to /usr/lib/gnat.
>>
>> FSF GCC and GNAT GPL both use $prefix/lib/gnat to find GPR files, with
>> the rest of the layout as you say.
>>
>> The /usr/share/ada/adainclude is Debian's layout. I don't know why it's
>> different (probably Ludovic needed a scheme before AdaCore had settled
>> on theirs)
> 
> Correct. I didn't invent this path myself though; Florian Weimer did,
> when he made the very first proposal for a standard ("GNU Ada
> Environment Specification") back in 2001 or so. 

According to $(man hier), an Ada compiler's spec files
would not normally be counted among UNIX System Resources,
specifically not in /usr/include, and since /usr/share seems to be
the place for architecture independent files, the current paths seem
o.K. to me.