Re: Difference between gprbuild and gnatmake

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:

>> but in fact GCC 8.0.0's gnatmake will accept project files (to some
>> extent, anyway, on a simple test).
>
> "Will"?

In the sense of "is prepared to", equivalent to "does", near enough

> gnatmake of my GCC 7.1.0 (not 8.0.0) does accept project files:
>
> gnatmake -p -c -Plibrdf.gpr -XLIBRARY_KIND=static -XOBJ_DIR=./obj-static -
> Xsoversion=librdf-ada.so.2.0.15 -XMODE=Install -XDEBUG_MODE=check

But that may be because gnatmake is in fact invoking gprbuild; if
compilation logs look like

compile
   [Ada]          foo.adb

then they are from gprbuild.