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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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Date: 2004-08-04T18:06:19-04:00

Tapio Kelloniemi <spam12@thack.org> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I'm planning to seriously develop free software packages in Ada. The
> problem I have is GNTA's fitness for GNU program building standards.
> I would like to autoconfize my project (not very bad, some M4 macros
> can be found in GtkAda). But I would like to use automake (my projects
> are in Ada and C, because almost every free software library is written 
> in C). 

Sounds reasonable. Others have said "you don't need autmake with Ada".
That's almost true, but any _real_ project also has tests,
documentation, and distribution needs which are beyond Ada's scope.
autoconf/automake help with those tasks, and Ada needs to at least
cooperate.

I'm using automake in an Ada project (a GtkAda interface to a books
database). It's not ready for prime time yet, but I'd be happy to
exchange notes about autoconf use.

-- 
-- Stephe