Re: autotools and ada

In article <u3blmnvlg.fsf@xxxxxxx>, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Jerome Hugues <hugues@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> In article <uwtizy8kf.fsf@xxxxxxx>, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>
>>> To be fully useful with Ada, there needs to be a shared set of macros
>>> written (in m4) for finding and executing GNAT tools (and/or other Ada
>>> toolsets).
>>
>> You'll find some of them in Adasockets, PolyORB, XML/Ada (and possibly
>> others) depending on your needs ..
>
> Well, my point was that they need to be _shared_. By which I meant
> "contributed to the autotools project, so _all_ Ada projects have
> direct access to them".

That would be nice.

I could take some time to extract and publish them, as I'm familiar
with autotools with Ada in the context of PolyORB, but cannot provide
any deadline for the next few months :(

> I haven't looked, but it sounds like the Ada macros in the above
> projects are all different from each other.

They all have a common ancestor I suppose, but AFAICT, yes, they are
now different ..

> So the problem now is to get the various Ada projects that use
> autotools to agree on a standard set of macros. Hmm, do you suppose
> the ARG would accept that task :)?

What about a user-driven initiative ? I'm not convinced it is the role
of the ARG, and they have a more important task to finish ;)

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Jerome
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