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From: Jerome Hugues <hugues@merlin-lenchanteur.enst.fr>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and GNU build system
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:12:31 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <jPRPc.888$xV7.729@reader1.news.jippii.net>, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm planning to seriously develop free software packages in Ada. The
> problem I have is GNTA's fitness for GNU program building standards.
> I would like to autoconfize my project (not very bad, some M4 macros
> can be found in GtkAda). But I would like to use automake (my projects
> are in Ada and C, because almost every free software library is written 
> in C). I also want than configure creates config.h and a gnatprep
> definition file with almost the same values. And what about GNU
> gettext support. I'm not an autotools expert and this might be a
> wrong place to discuss this subject, but I choose CLA, because
> folks here know GNAT, which autotools mailing list readers probably
> don't know. If anyone has had any experience or interest regarding
> this, please drop a line.

You may also give a look at AdaSockets and PolyORB. These two projects
use autoconf/automake to build their libraries. PolyORB also uses
autoconf/automake to build binaries (I don't know for AdaSockets)

AdaSockets use multiple macros to get constants from the build system,
this may help.

-- 
Jerome