Re: Using ASIS when source is in multiple directories

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

James Alan Farrell <anonymous@anonymous.com> writes:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:58:10 -0400, Stephen Leake
> <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I would say where the files are is up to my customers.  

Source files, yes. Build files, no; you get to tell them how to use
your tool, and your tool should build the tree files itself.

> I don't have much insight into how they do large Ada projects. But
> it is likely they will not have used ASIS before.
>
> What I do know is that my customers are several large well known
> military contractors (but I'm not at liberty to name names), and the
> analysis software will be used on very large ongoing projects.
>
>  Is it normal to put the .o files into the same directory when not
> using ASIS?

Yes. That way, you can keep different sets of compiled code around;
one with "debug" options, one with "release" options, one compiled
with ObjectAda, one with GNAT, one with the real-time target cross
compiler. 

On the other hand, "normal" is whatever your customer thinks it is :).

> I think this approach is viable, as long as we can explain to them
> what needs to be done.

Having your tool build the tree files it needs simplifies things a
lot. In particular, you can use ASIS-for-GNAT even when your customer
is not using GNAT. 

Hmm, unless compiling everything to get the tree files takes "too
long".

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-- Stephe