Re: Controlling the linking of shared libraries

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

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:06:34 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
> 
>> Bj�rn Persson <bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> writes:
>>
>>> According to the manual 
>>
>> That same manual (assuming it is the gprbuild manual) has a section
>> "command line", which says -largs will do what you want.
> 
> Yes, but Bj�rn reports that -largs doesn't work if you're building a
> dynamic library!

Yes, last time I checked it, I was forced to use two different gpr files
for building and using the library. Since I generated them anyway that was
not a big problem.

In general it is a murky issue how linker and other package attributes (or
how they call them) get propagated and composed upon "with"-ing, renaming
etc.

I wished AdaCore had documented that stuff, and gave thoughts too. E.g.
recently they changed the behavior of the attributes recognized as file
paths, so that path relative to the gpr file get broken.

Of course file paths should have been a type, distinct for "option",
distinct from "library name", distinct from String. But that is likely too
late now.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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