Re: text tools

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Rob Solomon <usenet@drrob1-noreply.com> writes:

> Tried to compile one of the texttool examples.  This is the furthest I
> got after having lots of trouble getting GNAT to find the sources.
> I have lots of errors that I don't understand.  This is on Ubuntu 9.04
> system w/ texttools installed via synaptic.
>
> What's up with this?

There are at least three problems:

> gnatmake -P/home/rob/tt/texttools-2.0.5/examples/basic.gpr basic.adb
> -d
> gcc-4.3 -c -I- -gnatA /usr/share/ada/adainclude/texttools/common.adb
> common.ads:76:10: warning: return type of "Odds" is an 8-bit Ada
> Boolean, use char in C

1) Apparently the texttools authors simply ignored these warnings?

2) The library should be installed precompiled; why is GNAT
   recompiling it?

> /home/rob/tt/texttools-2.0.5/examples/os.o: In function
> `os__setinterface':
> os.adb:(.text+0x119b): undefined reference to `Interface_String'

3) This appears to be a missing library.

Sorry I can't be much more help. I suggest you contact the texttools
authors directly.

-- 
-- Stephe