Re: Autoconf & gnat Help Needed

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:

> Stephen Leake expounded in news:82sk6nn4vn.fsf@stephe-leake.org:
>
>> Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Has anyone here had experience using GNAT with autoconf/automake?
>> 
>> My advice is to stop using the autotools, and use gprbuild instead.
>> 
>> gprbuild knows how to build C libraries and link them with Ada. It can
>> also use a C main, if necessary.
>
> Unfortunately, there is more to this than just the build. 
> I am mostly concerned about the ./configure and the generated
> config.h file.  Autoconf is critical for wide platform support.

Apparently you have source code in C as well as Ada? My sympathies :).

> But you gave me an idea.  Maybe I can just use autoconf and do away 
> with automake and libtool.  

Yes.

> I still need to use the libtool's library libtdl (I think it was), but
> that shouldn't be a problem. 

I'm not familiar with that tool; what does it do?

> That way I can still use make (gmake), as I have always done.

I always run gprbuild from Gnu make.

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