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From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
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Subject: Re: How to check syntax with GNAT?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 20:31:04 +0300
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Stephen Leake wrote:

> On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 1:54:46 AM UTC-5, Victor Porton wrote:
>> From
>> https://github.com/vporton/redland-bindings/blob/ada2012/ada/librdf.gpr
>> 
>>    package Builder is
>>       case Debug_Mode is
>>           when "check" =>
>>              for Default_Switches ("Ada") use ("-gnatc");
>>           when others =>
>>              null;
>>       end case;
>>    end Builder;
>> 
>> But when I run `make my-check`, I get:
>> 
>> $ make my-check
>> gnatmake -p -Plibrdf.gpr \
>>                  -XLIBRARY_KIND=static -XOBJ_DIR=./obj-static -
>> Xsoversion=librdf-ada.so.2.0.14 -XMODE=Install -XDEBUG_MODE=check
> 
> We need to see your makefile to answer this.

https://github.com/vporton/redland-bindings/blob/ada2012/ada/Makefile.am

> In addition, what version of GNAT are you using?

GCC 7.1.0 on Debian Linux.

> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.

What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are 
their differences?

> To find out how to do a syntax only compile, execute "gnatmake --help" or
> "gprbuild --help" in a shell window under an editor and search for
> "syntax".

I want to do it through .gpr file not through command line options.

Moreover, I already know that it is -gnatc switch.

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org