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Subject: help bootstrapping gprbuild & Ada newcomer problems
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Hello all.

I'm having trouble building gprbuild & xmlada.  I have Gnat installed & working, but I'm new to Ada & don't have gprbuild, so I must bootstrap it.

I see that there's a lot of recent activity in {https://github.com/AdaCore/gprbuild/}, including people with similar problems, so for now I'll watch that in the hopes that a near-future change will fix things.

But my question for comp.lang.ada is...

Are these types of problems common for newcomers to Ada?  If so, are the problems old, or are they recent, maybe due to increased recent interest in Ada?

Thanks.