Re: Detecting the OS type before clearing screen

[sk <noname@myob.com>]

Hi,

 > ... preprocessors are evil

I am going to take that statement with a grain of salt :-)

 > ... <various renames schemes> ...

I like, and use, package renaming to establish different
implementations, but I do not think that the actual build
issue has been addressed.

At some point in the build, a decision has to be made
as to which implementation is required. Some form of
preprocessing is required.

Manually edit the renames every time ? No thanks.

Using make files ? Then either you somehow get "make" to
detect which version you require or edit the makefile
to set a variable.

Shell scripts ? Same as above.

I have found that a simple script similar to ...

#!/bin/bash
gnatprep -D WITHCURSES infile.ada outfile.adb
gnatmake outfile.adb
rm outfile.adb

... is a lot simpler to maintain than messing around with
make files or fancy "sed" scripts to properly set up the
necessary Ada "renames" statements.

I have yet to be convinced that one should refute the
preprocessor based upon the current discussions :-)

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