Re: ANN: AdaBrowse 2.0

[Thomas Wolf <t_wolf@angelfire.com>]

[CC by e-mail to Preben Randhol]

randhol+abuse@pvv.org wrote in comp.lang.ada:

> So it would be nice if the Adabrowse program has a :
> 
>    compiler_command : constant String := "gcc ";
> 
> and use this throughout the program. Bcs then one only have to change
> it at one place and not 4-5 places as one must do now :-) However if one
> wants to distribute binaries, then perhaps a command line argument would
> be at it's place to specify which compiler to use.

I don't get it. You don't have to modify the sources if your compiler is
called "gnatgcc". Just define in a config file (say, "adabrowse.cfg")

  Compile = gnatgcc -c -gnatc -gnatt

and define (in your shell) an alias

  alias adabrowse = 'adabrowse -c adabrowse.cfg'

and all should be fine. (OK, some error messages will still say 
"gcc"...)

So it's not a command-line option (there's already enough of that, and
furthermore, it's not likely that the compile command needs to be
changed often), but a configuration file key.

But anyway, thanks for the suggestion. If you want to be certain that
I see such improvement proposals (or bug reports), please send them
to the e-mail address given in the user's guide, section 11. I do not
follow cla on a regular basis.

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