Re: ALR unable to get many packages

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 3:12:48 PM UTC-7, Simon Wright wrote:
> Kenneth Wolcott writes: 
> 
> > So I guess it is fair to say that ALR depends on homebrew and ALR 
> > will not work at all if there is a dependency on some C headers or 
> > libraries that can only be provided by homebrew?
> Sorry, but I've no idea how you got there from what I said!

Ok, perhaps that was a wee-bit severe, but it sure does look like that is the case.

What else am I to do?

If I don't install homebrew then what is it that I need to do to achieve the objective?  I'd like to use ALR, but it looks like it only works for packages that are pure Ada (I'm not 100% sure of that, but it seems to be the case).

So please show me what to do that will result in further progress with ALR and an M1 chip without using homebrew...

Also, I'm still learning how to use gprbuild, so I really don't understand how to proceed with the hand-patching of the sdlada porting to MacPorts issue (different thread).

Thanks,
Ken