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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file?
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:17:57 +0200
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Date: 2013-04-27T08:17:57+02:00
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:09:53 -0700 (PDT), sbelmont700@gmail.com wrote:

> You always use a configuration project, either explicitly (i.e. using
> --config) or implicitly (using --target).  The target option just invokes
> gprconfig, which auto-produces the 'auto.cgpr' based on the language and
> path values and drops in the current directory.

I don't use *.cgpr stuff. So far I see no compelling reasons to start using
it. Project files are complicated enough without another layer of tools,
which purpose is unclear to me.

If anything useful could be done automatically, why gnatmake/gnat etc does
not do that already? Maybe because it is not so awfully useful? (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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