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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,170b136bef612224 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Received: by 10.180.206.107 with SMTP id ln11mr2881514wic.7.1367665448228; Sat, 04 May 2013 04:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Path: hg5ni66815wib.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.86.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newspeer1.nac.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!nrc-news.nrc.ca!News.Dal.Ca!citadel.nobulus.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:57:46 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <8f5e2358-05ab-4b0f-82be-b2f2d7438765@googlegroups.com> <51796066.5060906@obry.net> <1jpdzc49i9m1w.12yp9l8whf5lk$.dlg@40tude.net> <517AA6C1.7050508@obry.net> <1hdsodgh31xt9$.1ua65srkn4jrx$.dlg@40tude.net> <517ACCF4.4030209@obry.net> <13cmt05t70gdb$.dlevni36jbca$.dlg@40tude.net> <1a0s31jyzrp3k.119tu2obitutx$.dlg@40tude.net> <517bd35b$0$6643$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ZOt+glEqAP8SwP/H/SQpKw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2013-04-27T18:57:46+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:32:11 +0200, Georg Bauhaus = a =C3=A9crit: > Anyone who does not need to specialize in configuration business is > a happy person. > > Alas, the evolution of configuration tools such as GPRsomething > ultimately develops symptoms and patterns of sophistication that > predictably culminate in some equivalence class of autoconf, Actually, GPRBuild is a generalisation of GNATMake, and is not required = if = you only use Ada and a single compiler. In the latter case, GNATMake is = = enough. The core remains the project file, and the project file is commo= n = to both. So if GPRBuild tends to be a kind of AutoConf, that could be sa= id = of GNATMake too. > Just imagine some portable combined Ada/C++ program source text that h= as > become the subject of GPRbuild (alternatively, to whatever Atego's > Rational thing does, etc). Will porting the Ada/C++ program still be > both practical and cost efficient in the presence of having to port > one proprietary (open-source) configuration text to another proprietar= y > (maybe-not-open-source) configuration text? In this case, just use a classic Makefile and describe in a README file,= = what may have to be tweaked in it (compiler paths, names, options, etc).= > Who is financing this misguided use of brain power that creates > monstrosities of configuration to live in a costly zoo? There is nothing monstrous with it, it just fix compilers paths and = options, and default project files attributes and variables. That's just= = like binding and interfacing. The issue may be when it does not behave a= s = expected, but that can be said of the compiler too (I personally have mo= re = blocking issues with GNAT bug boxes than with GPRBuild which never been = = blocking to me). -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity