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Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?
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On 2014-08-18 23:49, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 
> ps. Makefiles are great. I do everything with makefiles. I use
> recursive makefile to build a whole tree with one command. What
> else would one use? a DOS batch file?

I would not call Makefiles great, but they
can do useful stuff.

Especially when the task is just not compile Ada-code.

Somewhat larger projects tends to have more than
a call to gnatmake/gprbuild, like

* drive creation of graphs/statistics from yesterdays work
* determine if auto-generated code needs to be re-auto-generated due to
  the tool or the single-source (usually xml) has changed.
* publish statistics on some resource, usually web page
* create directory structure when deployed on new machine
  no matter if its a target or dev machine
* drive sql-scripts to setup new databases in a consistent way
* drive autogenerate documentation from xml/single source


But it is a nightmare to debug ...


/Björn