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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: how to tell gnatmake to send executables to a different directory
	when compiling multi source?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:21:45 -0500
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Date: 2012-07-29T22:21:45-05:00
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On 7/29/2012 7:20 PM, Vasiliy Molostov wrote:

>
> It is better to get some large (old-school) open source tar-ball (I have
> learned it via compiling suse distribution sources under solaris,
> including gnat gcc jgnat and the rest of 4+Gb raw source code) and at the
> same time to read gnu makefile reference manual - after two-three days of
> "sick" reading any well-motivated person can find himself well-grounded to
> do anything with makefiles.
>

I learned Make many years ago when I had to build Netscape web server
on another flavor of Unix. The web server was about 1 or 2 million lines
of C code (not sure, but it was big) with tons of those lovely #ifdefs,
and the makefiles would build this source code for 16 or so different
platforms. Yes, that many different flavors of Unix including windows
and OS/2 also (many of these flavors of Unix are dead now. The Netscape web
server itself is not around any more ofcourse, this was in back in the days
of Netscape glory).

But I remember spending weeks just doing nothing but trying to figure
out how the Makefiles work in order to make the need adjustment to add
the platform I wanted to build the sources for.


--Nasser