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On 16 Okt., 11:12, amado.al...@gmail.com wrote:
> Second time someone counts *hundreds* of -I switches. I'd love to see
> that list :-)

I doubt you would like to see it.

We have source distributed in about 20 main directories, so-called
subsystems. Each of these is organized in a hierarchy of deeply nested
subdirectories. Path names get awfully long. All in all, there are
several 1000 Ada units.

I really did not feel like trying to write the set of -aI switches.
Instead I have a set of about 20 project files corresponding to the
above mentioned main directories. In a project file, I can say "take
all units in directory x and its subdirectories". As far as I know,
there is no way to do this with -aI; I have to name each single
directory where there are some units. This surely would amount to
100s.

I could use environment variables, but I can't put them under
configuration control as I can do with project files. And they are not
so easily maintainable.

I'm sure there would be a way to go without project files, I just find
they present the most convenient one.