Re: Question about GNAT project files.

["Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>]

On 2012-02-29 04:18, Phil Thornley wrote:

> So create a spark.sw file in the various working directories
> (presumably the same ones as the GPS project files) with at least the
> index_file option specified appropriately and do not specify the index
> file in the GPS project file.

Alas this doesn't work for me either. My problem is that I want to 
support both Linux and Windows development. It turns out I can use 
forward slashes on the Examiner command line as a path delimiter for 
either system. Thus

spark -index_file=src/spark.idx

Works as desired on both Windows and Linux platforms. However, when I 
put the following into my spark.sw file

-index_file=src/spark.idx

It works fine under Linux but on Windows I'm told "spark.idx is an 
invalid command line option." Apparently the parsing of these options is 
not identical between the spark.sw file and the actual command line. I 
can use

-index_file=src\spark.idx

on Windows but, of course, that won't work on Linux. Furthermore I have 
to use the same spark.sw file on both systems (right?). I tried 
enclosing the value of the switch in quotation marks

-index_file="src/spark.idx"

but this produced the same result.

I have a feeling that the right answer is for GPS to change to the 
subproject's home directory when issuing the SPARK commands for that 
project. Maybe this is a "bug" in the SPARK/GPS plugin.

Peter