Re: Green Hills Ada library question

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <EzABB4.9Bt.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
  stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote:
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> : Green Hills tech support claims their system has no automatic build process,
> : and I will have to go into their IDE and *manually* add all 371 files to a
> : build file.  That file will also have to be *manually* maintained. (Can you
> : say "error prone"?).
>
> Is the feature that is missing a directory-oriented build,
> as opposed to a file-oriented build?  It is a little unclear
> what you mean by "manual" add/maintain.  Presumably you will
> "manually" need to identify the directories of interest in any system.

Yes, you could call it that. I have no problem listing directories. I just
don't want to have to list all 371 files!

Every other compiler system I have worked with had one command, or more
typically a combination of two, that could be used to compile an entire
system from scratch without having to type in every unit or source file. For
Aonix it would be "adareg -all" followed by "adamake". For gnat I believe one
"gnatmake" does the trick (assuming everything is named properly).

On large projects maintaining an Ada library by manual processes is not
acceptable. With an error here and there it quickly becomes a mess. An
automatic system build process, particularly something that can be run batch,
is required.

With the tools that I have with AdaMulti, I can't do it. It looks like I have
to do one of two things:

o Use "adareg -all" to register all files with the library. Then do an
"adaopts -l -s" to list every file it found. Then invoke the compiler once on
*each* source file listed.

o Start up the GUI and create a new "build file". Then manually add each and
every file with the mouse. Right now for us that amounts to 371 source files
in 42 directories (but this is just our prototype!). Then invoke the AdaMulti
builder.

Neither activity sounds like much fun to do once, let alone once a day. If
anyone out there disagrees, contact me. We may just have an opening for you.
Of course you'd have to sign a carpel-tunnel waiver. :-)

Our only recourse seems to be to use the TCL that came with the AdaMulti to
write a script to perform the manually intensive part for us. I'm not afraid
to do that,  just shocked that I have to. I must have missed something.

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