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: 103376,93c210d172820d32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: best ada integrated development environment References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <38l5d.9799$gG4.7550@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:09:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.8.252 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1096146559 63.184.8.252 (Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:09:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:09:19 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4186 Date: 2004-09-25T21:09:19+00:00 List-Id: Phil wrote: >>A quick look at the top-secret documentation should show that you can >>use environment variables, or the -I option to gnatmake. > > the code i am compiling is from the user guide tutorial. but i am > doing my own variant where i put the two files in sub directories. the > user guide is either poor or assumes knowledge i do not have. i am not > bitching that it is poor coz its free. I see a lot of posts here where > people answer the question by "check the manual" I have found the documentation for GNAT to be very good. Sections 3, 4, and 16 of the GNAT User Guide (gnat_ug.html) clearly describe the various ways to tell GNAT where to search for source and object files. -- Jeff Carter "Go and boil your bottoms." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 01