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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: GNAT and GNU build system
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:52:07 +0000 (UTC)
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* Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lutz Donnerhacke:
>> You do not need autoconfig for Ada.
>
> Some autoconf features are very helpful for writing bindings,
> though--for instance, extracting constant from system header files.

They are a dirty hacks to dig data from a non progamming language (mostly C
preprocessor). It would be much more helpful to simply import the values of
constants using the linker.