Re: Library file locations (was: Debian Policy for Ada, Second Edition)

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Pascal Obry wrote:
> Tapio Kelloniemi a �crit :
>>GNAT should look for project files in /usr/local as well, but I'm
>>afraid this will not be done. Perhaps the project file directory should be 
>>changed to share/gnat.
> 
> As I said this is not ok for handling multiple compilers. Remember that
> the libraries you build is dependent on the compiler version used to
> built it and can't be shared with another compiler. That's why having a
> root install directory per compiler version (/opt/gnat/<ver> or
> whatever) if a good scheme.

Libraries installed under /usr should of course be compiled with the 
system compiler � the one that comes with the operating system 
distribution and is invoked through /usr/bin/gnatmake. If you install 
additional versions of Gnat, /opt/gnat/<ver> seems like a good place to 
put them and libraries for them.

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