From: "Henrik Härkönen" <heharkon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Per-project third party library management
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 04:57:06 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-10-09T04:57:06-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5cc1c6e-d378-45ec-aeee-8d730c63bca0@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pphmuu$1v88$1@gioia.aioe.org>
> If you don't want to follow the rules imposed by the OS, there is no
> such thing as "install" anymore. Simply copy the library file where you
> want it to be.
>
> Specifically for GNAT Ada there is a ready-to-use tool gprinstall which
> does installation of Ada projects. A third-party library can be
> described as a separate (externally built) library project. I didn't try
> it, but I suppose it must work as expected.
>
> But again, for anything beyond simplest stuff you have no choice but to
> use the corresponding packaging tool of the corresponding OS, however
> painful, like in the case of DEB and RPM, it might be.
Ok, I have to tinker with these options and see what seems like the best option.
The gprinstall at least seems nice in that way that it would reduce some manual and error prone steps on the way, perhaps.
-Henrik
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2018-10-09 7:03 Per-project third party library management Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-09 7:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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