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Subject: Re: How to best organize and build large projects?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:19:05 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:
>
>> NB
>> gnatmake will lose the ability to build libraries after the next
>> release.
>
> Not a big loss, maybe. When building a static library one forced to
> use "ar" anyway. There seem no obvious way to force "--whole-archive"
> on the end project.

I don't understand what --whole-archive has to do with ar - it's an ld
option.

And I usually use static libraries, don't see any benefit from using
share libraries on my own machine. gprbuild works perfectly
well. Especially with my patch to produce "stand-alone" static
libraries, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56616.