Re: Creating mixed language static libraries with gpr files?

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

sjw wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> > The author Vincent Celier did a presentation of GPRBuild at FOSDEM
> > 2009; the slides are online. AFAIU, GPRBuild is currently available
> > only to paying customers. It will be part of GNAT GPL 2009 Edition for
> > the general public.
>
> gprbuild was released as part of gnat-gpl-2008, and you can get the
> sources at libre.adacore.com.
>
> gprmake was (AdaCore said June last year) a proof of concept only, and
> has been removed from GCC sources. gprbuild is a separate project,
> doesn't depend on the compiler version (well, not as much, anyway!)
>
> gprbuild built and works fine on Mac OS X Leopard, intel, at any rate
> for static libraries. I think my problems with dynamic libraries are
> as much GCC's fault as anything, see eghttp://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39336

Thanks for that information. I'll start packaging GCC 4.4 into Debian
soon. This will remove gprmake. After that, I will package gprbuild
for Debian.  In the mean time, I suggest users of Debian stable (or
GCC 4.3 on other distributions) try gprmake.

--
Ludovic Brenta.