Re: text tools

[Rob Solomon <usenet@drrob1-noreply.com>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:12:13 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

>Rib Solomon wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>[on Ubuntu 9.04]
>[lots snipped]
>> windows.adb:(.text+0x386af): undefined reference to `CDesktop'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> gnatlink: error when calling /usr/bin/gcc-4.3
>> gnatmake: *** link failed.
>>
>> [2009-10-18 15:48:54] process exited with status4 (elapsed time:
>20.64s)
>>
>> The following is the contents of my basic.gpr file
>> basic.gpr
>> project Basic is
>>
>> � �for Source_Dirs use ("./**",
>> � � � � � � � � � � � � "/usr/share/ada/adainclude/texttools/**");
>> � �for Main use ("basic.adb");
>> � �package Builder is
>> � � � for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("-x");
>> � �end Builder;
>> � �package Compiler is
>> � � �for Switches("basic") use ("-x");
>> � �end Compiler;
>> � �package Linker is
>> � � � for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("-lm",
>> � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � "-lcurses");
>> � �end Linker;
>>
>> end Basic;
>
>This is wrong and is almost certainly the cause for all your problems.
>Please read the contents of /usr/share/ada/adainclude/texttools.gpr
>for instructions on how to properly use the installed package. For
>background information, please read the Debian Policy for Ada[1],
>chapter 5 "Using shared libraries".
>
>[1] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#Using-shared-libraries
>
>Also, you should not have the sources of TextTools in your home
>directory, only the examples you wish to compile.
>
>By the way, I have been looking for a new maintainer for this package
>for 18 months now. If nobody steps up, I will request removal of this
>package and it will not be in the next release of Debian, to be frozen
>in March 2010 and released some time later.

The following basic.gpr is not working either:
with "texttools";
project basic is
   for Source_Dirs use (".");
   for Object_dir use "obj";
   for Exec_Dir use ".";
   for Main use ("basic");
   package Linker is
      for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("/usr/lib/libtexttools.a");
   end linker;
end basic;

I tried this without first and then with the package Linker clause.
Neither works.  I get very similar errors to the first time I posted,
w/ lots of undefined and unlinkable symbols.