Re: ANN: Ada 2005 Math Extensions, 20100901 release

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:

> For future reference, here is the patch:
>
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg01623.html>

Interesting. On Mac OS X, GNAT GPL 2010 i-forbla.adb contains

   package body Interfaces.Fortran.BLAS is
      pragma Linker_Options ("-lgnala");
      pragma Linker_Options ("-lm");
      pragma Linker_Options ("-Wl,-framework,vecLib");
   end Interfaces.Fortran.BLAS;

> The compiler options from ada_math_build.gpr should work,
> e.g. gnatmake -a or gcc -c -gnatpg. Finally, copy the .ali and .o to
> your Ada library path, `gnatls -v`.

I don't see why you'd do this 'by hand' rather than letting
ada_math_build.gpr do the heavy lifting?

If you do do this, (a) make sure the .ali is read-only, (b) copy
ada-numerics-generic_arrays.ad[bs] too (to the source search path, of
course).

I'm having 4th or 5th thoughts about package naming. Perhaps I should
make it Ada_Numerics.Generic_Arrays? That way future compiler releases
won't get sniffy about this non-ARM package. OTOH, it isn't broken now
...