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From: "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: libgtkada2.14.2 on Ubuntu 10.04
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:42:55 -0400
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In article <87eick8bti.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>,
 Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

> John B. Matthews writes on comp.lang.ada:
> > In preparation for porting a GtkAda application to Linux using 
> > libgtkada2.14.2-1, I tried a simple example [1] on Ubuntu 10.04.1.
> >
> > I was surprised to see this
> >
> > $ gtkada-config --cflags
> > -aI/usr/share/ada/adainclude/gtkada2.14.2 \ 
> > -aO/usr/lib/ada/adalib/gtkada2.14.2
> >
> > when the actual locations are these
> >
> > /usr/share/ada/adainclude/gtkada2
> > /usr/share/ada/adainclude/gtkada2

Oops, I meant "/usr/lib/ada/adalib/gtkada2".

> > Now that I look, it's been fixed [2], but I'm not sure of the best 
> > way to resolve the problem: add another repository or just edit 
> > gtkada-config.
> 
> Is it impractical for you to use GNAT project files?  The Debian
> compiler is patched so that
> 
> with "gtkada";
> project Example is
>    for Main use ("example");
> end Example;
> 
> will work out of the box; see the file
> /usr/share/ada/adainclude/gtkada.gpr.

Excellent! It works well; thanks. Am I correct that 'with "gtkada"' 
refers to /usr/share/ada/adainclude/gtkada.gpr itself?

with "gtkada2";
project lady is
   for Object_Dir use "obj";
   for Exec_Dir use ".";
   for Main use ("main");
end lady;

> Another option, of course, is to ditch the man in the middle (Ubuntu)
> and go straight to the source of the correct package: Debian.

Tempting.

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John B. Matthews
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