Re: Ncurses and Ada

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

Simon Wright wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Julian Leyh writes:
>> BTW, where did you get /usr/share/ada/adainclude from? Normally, the
>> Ada library packages should install to /usr/include/<foo> and
>> /usr/lib/<foo> and their project files to /usr/lib/gnat.
> 
> FSF GCC and GNAT GPL both use $prefix/lib/gnat to find GPR files, with
> the rest of the layout as you say.
> 
> The /usr/share/ada/adainclude is Debian's layout. I don't know why it's
> different (probably Ludovic needed a scheme before AdaCore had settled
> on theirs)

Correct. I didn't invent this path myself though; Florian Weimer did,
when he made the very first proposal for a standard ("GNU Ada
Environment Specification") back in 2001 or so.  IIRC, that
specification applied to the early .rpm packages for GNAT 3.13p
produced by the Ada for Linux Team.  So, it is possible that
/usr/share/ada/adainclude still exists in distributions other than
Debian.

> and I haven't so far worked out install scripts that will
> work in either situation.

Sorry about that :/ but as I've said many times, packaging is
difficult; if you want to concentrate on writing your software,
your best bet is to leave packaging to specialists of each target
platform while making their job as easy as possible.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.