From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: some questions on installing Ada on Linux
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:58:35 +0100
Date: 2014-10-07T16:58:35+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lywq8ban2s.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1fa8bfaa-977e-44d1-abf1-f83912fe60cc@googlegroups.com
brbarkstrom@gmail.com writes:
> The Linux distributions appear to maintain provenance and metadata on
> a package basis. The AdaCore GNAT approach maintains the provenance
> and metadata on a compilation unit basis.
I think this is a misunderstanding.
Debian builds its packages (pkgs in the following, to avoid ambiguity)
using GNAT, resulting in ALI and library files just as you would get on
any other system (modulo binary formats, of course).
The Debian Ada pkg scheme is "merely" a way of ensuring that the pkg
management system can work out how to get a consistent set of Ada
library pkgs on your machine. It would be no good to have an AWS pkg,
for example, that was built by gnat-4.6 if the gnat you have running is
gnat-4.7.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-07 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-04 10:16 some questions on installing Ada on Linux Nasser M. Abbasi
2014-07-04 12:22 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-04 15:49 ` Dan'l Miller
2014-07-04 16:30 ` Simon Wright
2014-07-04 17:08 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-04 17:30 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-04 17:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-07-04 17:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-10-07 13:43 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07 15:58 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2014-10-07 16:56 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07 18:47 ` Ludovic Brenta
2014-10-07 19:06 ` brbarkstrom
2014-10-07 19:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
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