Re: Difference between gprbuild and gnatmake

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Simon Wright wrote:

> Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> writes:
> 
>> From another thread:
>>
>>> You should probably be using gprbuild, not gnatmake.
>>
>> What is the difference? Is gprbuild a newer version of gnatmake? What are
>> their differences?
> 
> gnatmake is part of the compiler suite (it's used in the compiler
> build). gprbuild is not part of the compiler; it used only to be
> generally available in source form as part of GNAT GPL releases, but
> nowadays it's on github[1].
> 
> From there, "GPRbuild is an advanced build system designed to help
> automate the construction of multi-language systems."; it understands
> multiple languages (C, C++, Fortran at least - I haven't tried Fortran).
> 
> GCC 6 said
> 
>    warning: gnatmake -P is obsolete and will not be available in the
>    next release; use gprbuild instead
> 
> but in fact GCC 8.0.0's gnatmake will accept project files (to some
> extent, anyway, on a simple test).

"Will"?

gnatmake of my GCC 7.1.0 (not 8.0.0) does accept project files:

gnatmake -p -c -Plibrdf.gpr -XLIBRARY_KIND=static -XOBJ_DIR=./obj-static -
Xsoversion=librdf-ada.so.2.0.15 -XMODE=Install -XDEBUG_MODE=check

> [1] https://github.com/AdaCore/gprbuild

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