Re: ALR unable to get many packages

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>]

Hi Simon;

> > sed: illegal option -- s 
> > usage: sed script [-Ealnru] [-i extension] [file ...] 
> > sed [-Ealnu] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
> This dosn't seem to do any harm. 
> See this PR: https://github.com/AdaCore/aws/pull/368

Cool.

> > gnatcoll-refcount.ads:90:04: warnings
> This set of warnings has been there for quite a while. I've never had a 
> problem with it.

Also cool.

> > Lots of "Exploring..."
> I don't recall those messages ... I probably wasn't looking, so if the 
> build didn't stop I wouldn't have noticed

Very good, see no problem then there is no problem :-)

> > Lots of "Building"...
If it doesn't complain then there's nothing 
> > missing and nothing wrong with the C and Ada sources?
> I'd say Yes

Very good, see no problem then there is no problem :-) 

> > The process generates at least three times a warning something like 
> > the following: "Generating possibly incomplete environment because of 
> > missing dependencies"
> That's because the alr you're using doesn't understand MacPorts. Watch 
> this space.

Looking forward to this! [GRIN*]

> > What do I do now to ascertain the precise state of the alr aws package?
> You could try 
> 
> cd demos/hello_world 
> alr exec -- make TARGET=aarch64-apple-darwin21 
> ./hello_world 
> 
> and within 60 seconds open your browser on localhost:8080. 
> 
> (the 'make' part rebuilds the whole of aws!!)

The test you suggested worked!

Thank you!

Ken