Re: How to build Python3 support into GNATCOLL with alire

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Emmanuel Briot <briot.emmanuel@gmail.com> writes:

> I have not used alire myself, but I noticed the following in your message:
>
>> Alire 1.3 will support Homebrew as the package manager for macOS, but
>> someone has to work out how to upgrade the above two items to use it
>> (and how to approach include, library paths; the ideal way would
>> probably be to use pkg-config to determine them, but the simplest way
>> of doing that would mean running a script from within gprbuild - not
>> going to happen.
>
> Although running external scripts from gprbuild is indeed unlikely, it
> is definitely in the realms of gprconfig (which is run first to
> generate the .cgpr config file).  For this one would need to provide
> some .xml file that explains what command to run, and what to generate
> in the .cgpr file (likely adding some `-I` compiler switches for C
> files).

Brilliant idea! Thanks, Emmanuel!