Re: Installing ada-mode 6.2.1 on Debian Buster

[Azathoth Hastur <azathothhaster@gmail.com>]

On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 5:30:05 AM UTC-5, Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> This turned out to be more difficult than expected, so I decided to share my 
> notes on this here. It might be of use to someone.
> 
> How to install Emacs Ada mode 6.2.1 on Debian Buster:
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Prerequisits:
> 
>      apt-get install gnat
>      apt-get install libgnatcoll-xref18-dev
> 
> Download & install Ada mode 6.2.1 from GNU ELPA via the Emacs package manager.
> 
> (Side note: Emacs has a bug preventing it to download anything from GNU ELPA, 
> you need (setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3") in your 
> .emacs. See 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/cdei4p/failed_to_download_gnu_archive_bad_request/ 
> for more.)
> 
> Now, open a shell and go into the directory where Ada mode has been installed 
> (e.g. ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ada-mode-6.2.1).
> 
> * Fix the line-ending of the two files wisi-fringe.el and gpr-query.el:
> 
>      dos2unix gpr-query.el ; dos2unix ../wisi-2.2.1/wisi-fringe.el.
> 
> * Comment out the line with "gnat_util"; in the file gpr_query.gpr.
> 
> * Make sure gprbuild will use the correct compilers, run gprconfig to select 
> GNAT for Ada and GNATGCC for C. This is especially important if Clang is 
> installed as well.
> 
> * Run build.sh. It should compile everything without errors, but it will fail 
> on installation.
> 
> * Manually install the files gpr_query, all *.exe, and ada_lr1_parse_table.txt 
> into /usr/local/bin/ or another directory on PATH.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Markus

debian LOL

who uses that junkpile in 2019?
archlinux or art of linux s3