Re: Debian & gprinstall

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 14/02/2017 22:30, Simon Wright wrote:

> I only want a set of switches that will make gprinstall do something
> that works on Debian with the system compiler (no problem if using GNAT
> GPL, of course, since the default setup is what GNAT GPL expects) and
> doesn't trample over other software.

I think a natural way would be if AdaCore added package Installer to the 
project file which could contain variables and commands to gprinstall.

> Is the Fedora equivalent of the Debian Ada policy written up anywhere?

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ada

>> If indeed grpinstall were to care of the Linux target I would suggest
>> to generate a proper project installation file, *.deb, *.rpm and use
>> it in the standard system installer.
>
> But I'm not going to distribute binary library packages for any Linux
> flavours. So I don't need to understand .deb, .rpm, etc etc. I just want
> the _source_ packages to be easily installable.

Sure, but there is no easy way, not any more. I mean, with all these 
multi-arch systems and cross compilers it becomes more and more 
complicated. So maybe in the end it would be easier to do it in a hard 
way...

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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