Re: text tools

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

On Oct 20, 11:28 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org>
wrote:
> Rob Solomon wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>
> > The following basic.gpr is not working either:
> > with "texttools";
> > project basic is
> >    for Source_Dirs use (".");
> >    for Object_dir use "obj";
> >    for Exec_Dir use ".";
> >    for Main use ("basic");
> >    package Linker is
> >       for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("/usr/lib/libtexttools.a");
> >    end linker;
> > end basic;
>
> > I tried this without first and then with the package Linker clause.
> > Neither works.  I get very similar errors to the first time I posted,
> > w/ lots of undefined and unlinkable symbols.
>
> OK, I'll try to reproduce that and get back to you.

On my Debian (testing) system, I do not get the same errors as you do;
this seems to be a bug introduced by Ubuntu 9.04, so the only way I
can help you here is by saying "upgrade to Debian" :/

However, even on Debian there is a minor bug; /usr/lib/libtexttools.so
is not linked against libgnarl.so as it should.  A simple workaround
is to write the project file thus:

with "texttools";
project basic is
   for Source_Dirs use (".");
   for Object_dir use "obj";
   for Exec_Dir use ".";
   for Main use ("basic");
   package Linker is
      for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("-lgnarl");
   end linker;
end basic;

which, on my system, results in a working executable.  For reference,
here are tha packages that I used:

ii  gnat               4.3.3-9 	The GNU Ada compiler
ii  gnat-4.3           4.3.4-4 	The GNU Ada compiler
ii  gnat-4.3-base      4.3.4-4 	The GNU Compiler Collection (gnat base
package)
ii  libgnat-4.3        4.3.4-4 	Runtime library for GNU Ada
applications
ii  libgnat-4.3-dbg    4.3.4-4 	Runtime library for GNU Ada
applications
ii  libgnatprj-dev     4.3.3-9 	GNU Ada Project Manager development
files
ii  libgnatprj4.3      4.3.4-4 	GNU Ada Project Manager
ii  libgnatprj4.3-dbg  4.3.4-4 	GNU Ada Project Manager
ii  libgnatprj4.3-dev  4.3.4-4 	GNU Ada Project Manager development
files
ii  libgnatvsn-dev     4.3.3-9 	GNU Ada compiler version library -
development files
ii  libgnatvsn4.3      4.3.4-4 	GNU Ada compiler version library
ii  libgnatvsn4.3-dbg  4.3.4-4 	GNU Ada compiler version library
ii  libgnatvsn4.3-dev  4.3.4-4 	GNU Ada compiler version library -
development files
ii  libtexttools-dev   2.0.5-1 	Ada and C++ library for writing
console applications
ii  libtexttools2.0.5  2.0.5-1 	Ada and C++ library for writing
console applications

--
Ludovic Brenta.