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Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:871ve53e1h.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org:

> Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
>> Vadim Godunko expounded in news:d50d540f-8fdf-40ae-9301-
>> 4958c6bdff4f@q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
>>> On Apr 21, 11:54pm, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone here had experience using GNAT with autoconf/automake?
..
> On the contrary; in most of my Debian packages, I bypass the brittle
> autocrap, evil recursive makefiles (that do not play well with the
..
> I can do that because I do not care about portability to platforms 
other
> than Debian 

But one platform vastly simplifies things ;-)

>> This becomes especially crucial when you try to make the project build
>> under HPUX, Solaris, AIX and OSX in addition to usual Linux/*BSD
>> lineup. The environments are different enough to frustrate any simple
>> minded configuration management system.
> 
> That's correct but assumes you want to take the burden of doing all 
this
> by yourself.

But that is precisely what the autocrap is for.  It does work, 
albeit a bit unweildy.  I resisted it myself for years, but once 
you embrace the darkside, you do find that it can work, when 
sufficiently coaxed.

Warren