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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file?
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:36:00 +0200
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Date: 2013-04-27T10:36:00+02:00
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:45:01 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote:

>> If anything useful could be done automatically, why gnatmake/gnat etc does
>> not do that already? Maybe because it is not so awfully useful? (:-))
> 
> Because gnatmake is for Ada only whereas gprbuild supports building
> applications with multiple languages.

Well, I don't have C sources anyway. Neither I am planing them because like
with winres that would be in evident breach with having it multiplatform.

> The gprbuild knowledge base is
> quite impressive, I don't understand you'll want to *not* benefit from it?

Because I don't know the scope of this "knowledge." I don't know what
exactly it does, by which means and how I can benefit from what it does.
Granted, GPR has numerous issues, but I fail to see if auto config solves
any them.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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