Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits"

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> writes:

> Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> > Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> > > Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> > > > (I must admit, that wasn't easy in the days when operating systems
> > > > had unreasonable limits on file names (like only one dot, or only 8
> > > > characters). Are those bad-old-days over?)
> > > 
> > > I hope they are over. But we are stuck with their legacy; all of the
> > > GNAT compiler source files are krunched to 8.3 names.
> > 
> > Yeah, I find that annoying.
> 
> And eminently fixable, if the ACT folks care to do it.
> 
> In the meantime, it shouldn't be too difficult to run a script over
> the source directories that creates symbolic links with the full
> names.  (Yes, I'm assuming a Unix-like environment.)

I had hoped gnatchop would do exactly that, since that's what it does
for "normal" code. But apparently gnatchop has the System and Ada
packages hardcoded as special cases, because it produced the same 8.3
file names.

One of these days, I'll get the source for gnatchop, and take out the
hardcoding. In the meantime, I just cope.

Actually, Emacs ada-mode has an interface to gnatchop, so if I put the
cursor on 'with Ada.Text_IO', and hit a key, it knows how to find the
8.3 filename. That helps a lot.

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