Re: text tools

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

Rib Solomon wrote on comp.lang.ada:
[on Ubuntu 9.04]
[lots snipped]
> windows.adb:(.text+0x386af): undefined reference to `CDesktop'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gnatlink: error when calling /usr/bin/gcc-4.3
> gnatmake: *** link failed.
>
> [2009-10-18 15:48:54] process exited with status4 (elapsed time:
20.64s)
>
> The following is the contents of my basic.gpr file
> basic.gpr
> project Basic is
>
>    for Source_Dirs use ("./**",
>                         "/usr/share/ada/adainclude/texttools/**");
>    for Main use ("basic.adb");
>    package Builder is
>       for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("-x");
>    end Builder;
>    package Compiler is
>      for Switches("basic") use ("-x");
>    end Compiler;
>    package Linker is
>       for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("-lm",
>                                         "-lcurses");
>    end Linker;
>
> end Basic;

This is wrong and is almost certainly the cause for all your problems.
Please read the contents of /usr/share/ada/adainclude/texttools.gpr
for instructions on how to properly use the installed package. For
background information, please read the Debian Policy for Ada[1],
chapter 5 "Using shared libraries".

[1] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#Using-shared-libraries

Also, you should not have the sources of TextTools in your home
directory, only the examples you wish to compile.

By the way, I have been looking for a new maintainer for this package
for 18 months now. If nobody steps up, I will request removal of this
package and it will not be in the next release of Debian, to be frozen
in March 2010 and released some time later.

--
Ludovic Brenta.