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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Current statu of ASIS for GNAT 2012, please ?
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>> http://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2011/10/building-asis.html.
>
> Nice writeup :) but I wanted to clarify this:
>
> Debian provides both static and shared versions of all libraries, per
> general Debian Policy (not specific to Ada).  The shared libraries are
> in their own packages.  The static libraries are in the corresponding
> development packages along with the source files necessary to build and
> link programs against both the static and shared libraries.
>
> Thus, the Debian package libgnatvsn4.x-dev contains all the *.ads,
> *.adb, *.ali files, a *.gpr project file, *and* the static library
> libgnatvsn.a.  This library also contains version.o resulting from
> building GCC with all the necessary C preprocessor macros, and thus
> version.o is guaranteed consistent with GCC.

Good point. I was clearly trying to say the wrong thing; now it just
reads "There's an alternative to creating a libgnatvsn.a or .dylib which
merely depends on your having a compiler build tree around!"