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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Autoconf & gnat Help Needed
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:27:58 +0000 (UTC)
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Stephen Leake expounded in news:82sk6nn4vn.fsf@stephe-leake.org:

> Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Has anyone here had experience using GNAT with autoconf/automake?
> 
> My advice is to stop using the autotools, and use gprbuild instead.
> 
> gprbuild knows how to build C libraries and link them with Ada. It can
> also use a C main, if necessary.

Unfortunately, there is more to this than just the build. 
I am mostly concerned about the ./configure and the generated
config.h file.  Autoconf is critical for wide platform support.

But you gave me an idea.  Maybe I can just use autoconf and do away 
with automake and libtool.  I still need to use the libtool's 
library libtdl (I think it was), but that shouldn't be a problem.
That way I can still use make (gmake), as I have always done.

Warren