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From: Rob Solomon <usenet@drrob1-noreply.com>
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Subject: Re: text tools
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:14:46 -0400
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Date: 2009-10-20T19:14:46-04:00
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:49:59 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

>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:
Finally got it to work.  I also found that the order of these options
in the Linker clause is important.  This worked:

package Linker is
  for Default_Switches("Ada") use ("-lm","-lcurses","-lgnarl");
end linker;

I almost cannot believe it worked.

Now I have to try some of the other examples.