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From: Vadim Godunko <vgodunko@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Autoconf & gnat Help Needed
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:54:45 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 24, 12:18=A0am, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Vadim Godunko expounded in news:d50d540f-8fdf-40ae-9301-
> 4958c6bdf...@q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
>
> > On Apr 21, 11:54 pm, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Has anyone here had experience using GNAT with autoconf/automake?
>
> > I used them long time ago. I don't known any project which still use
> > them now, but them was used in old versions of PolyORB and QtAda.
>
> I just feel that if an Ada (gnat) based project is going
> to gain any package-level respect from the maintainers
> of Debian/etc., it will need to be autoconf ready.
>
By the way, configure equivalent, written in Ada, included in
Matreshka, it is still relatively simple, but good enough to detect
several important properties of target system like size of the
address, endianess, support of atomic operations by architecture and
support for MMX/SSE by Ada compiler.