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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc7ae4ba7bf202da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!out04a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GTK Build from source References: <56427db9-557f-44c2-8325-b3c44a4db8f8@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <16c33788-3d54-494e-9e4f-bc8178ef11a1@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <63788cfe-4253-4244-ba50-6bf6f3ce51e3@k7g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> <48AB2982.3080100@obry.net> <04308fda-833d-4e4c-a007-ec7d07a05521@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com> From: Stephen Leake Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:08:31 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rAxW/ewW5lYJkj4JDldGRPCT3qE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 906f748ac01e9c74cf41806547 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7401 Date: 2008-08-20T08:08:31-04:00 List-Id: "RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com" writes: > FWIW > > A pertinent question might be - will the gnat Project support with gpr > files not serve the function. Perhaps ada based distributions should > use that instead of the traditional config etc. > > In any case, I found that on Windows for gnat based development, I am > not sure cygwin works that well. for example, the -I and other such > specifications want to interpret the argument using the native > directory separator ie "\" and not the unix like "/" Any recent GNAT will handle "/" in windows file/path names; what version are you running that has problems with that? Perhaps you mean the native path separator in ADA_PROJECT_PATH; that is still a problem, but since you specify ADA_PROJECT_PATH once per project, it's not a big deal. Also, installing Cygwin at c:/ (_not_ c:/cygwin) makes things _much_ nicer; then windows c:/foo/bar is the _same_ as cygwin /foo/bar; no /cygdrive/c/ or `cygpath -w /foo/bar' necessary. The Cygwin installer complains when you do this; that's because it assumes you don't know what you are doing, and might have some other bin directory at c:/bin. Ignore the complaint! > So if one is used to the command line - we have to get friendly with > cmd!!! Not me! Except when trying to use an nfs client from Windows; Cygwin doesn't have one, so I have to use another product, and then Cygwin doesn't see those mounts. Obvious solution; pay someone to build a Cygwin nfs client! -- -- Stephe