From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,PDS_OTHER_BAD_TLD, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!aioe.org!gy7opw3oYmwPg+L8gXeD2w.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Alire can't decide system when "get-ing" eagle_lander demo Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:10:06 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <864jx3jno1.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <16f497bd-b288-420a-8d77-84b60bc6fd0bn@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="53535"; posting-host="gy7opw3oYmwPg+L8gXeD2w.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:acSb0o9iXwAKncP+frfAhFV4RqA= Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64367 List-Id: Rob G writes: > As a newby to Aliure, but not to Ada or GNAT-CE/GPS, I installed Alire > on my WIndows10 laptop. As an additional result it installed MSYS2. I > have no intention whatsoever to use MSYS, just want an Ada/Windows10 > development environment. > Skipping the "Hello, World" demo I started with Eagle_Lander, mainly > because that is a Gtkada app. > However, "alr get eagle_lander" resulted in a >>> > Note: Deploying gtkada=21.0.0... > -=O=- # # # # > Note: Running post_fetch actions for gtkada=21.0.0... > configure: loading site script /usr/local/etc/config.site > checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type > << > Note that from the MSYS2 environment that was installed by Alire, if I > do a ./doinstall for Gtkada the script fails because it can't find the > a bin directory with Gtk. > > What to do to get Gtkada installed? > PS It is unclear to me why Alire doesn't fetch the 22.0.0 version from Gtihub I don't have an answer, but it would help if you posted this as an issue in the Alire Github project: https://github.com/alire-project/alire There seems to be more Alire help available on the Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/ada-lang/Alire, although maybe that will change if more people post here; I much prefer email/news via Emacs Gnus to anything in a web browser. -- -- Stephe