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Subject: Re: how to tell gnatmake to send executables to a different directory
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> But I remember spending weeks just doing nothing but trying to figure
> out how the Makefiles work in order to make the need adjustment to add
> the platform I wanted to build the sources for.

I think the answer is imake.

(only quarter-serious. Back in the day imake served me well on a
multi-component project buildable for Linux, OSF/1, Solaris).