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Subject: Re: texttools and standard library packages
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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:59:44 -0500
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:57:11 +0000, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
wrote:

>agent@drrob1.com writes:
>
>>   package Linker is
>>     for Default_Switches ("Ada")
>>         use ("-C",
>>              "-lm",
>>              "-lncurses"
>>             );
>>   end Linker;
>> end Debug;
>>
>> and I did
>>   gnatmake -Pdebug
>>
>> I am now getting this error:  "gnatlink: failed to open binder output"
>
>Where did the -C switch come from in package Linker?
>
>   $ gnatlink -C
>   gnatlink: -C.ali not found
>
>(on the other hand, I just tried with one of my own GPRs and the command
>line that gnatmake successfully passed to gnatlink was
>
>   gnatlink foo.ali -C -o foo
>
>The -C didn't get passed to the system linker.

This is the full output from that attempt

gnatbind -shared -I- -x /home/rob/Ada/tt/debug/basic.ali

gnatlink /home/rob/Ada/tt/debug/basic.ali -shared-libgcc -g -C -lm
-lncurses -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ -ltexttools -o 

/home/rob/Ada/tt/debug/test
gnatmake: *** link failed.

gnatlink: Failed to open binder output

I see the -C in there, but I don't know what it does