From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Building Matreshka on Windows Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:10:46 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <3c41f737-a1d9-40a5-aea3-08c4b61baaa8@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vZYCW951TbFitc4GdEwQJg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32229 Date: 2016-11-03T17:10:46+01:00 List-Id: On 03/11/2016 16:32, Olivier Henley wrote: > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 4:18:07 AM UTC-4, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> BTW, gprbuild can C. Granted, gprbuild is a big step back from gnatmake, >> but still miles ahead of make. > > Why do say gprbuild is a big step back from gnatmake? I don't have > enough knowledge of both to evaluate your saying. Because in my opinion it is built upon an inferior technology. It uses XML, it is not self-contained (has a mess of semi-hidden supplementary files spread all around the system). It is very easy and common to have gprbuild not working where gnatmake never had any problem. The biggest danger is turning it into yet another "configure" / CMake. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de