Re: Where to place Ada (Gnat) libraries

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Ian Sharpe <igs_debian@sharpe-practice.co.uk> wrote:
>>Is there a Debian-preferred location for .ali files (etc) produced by
>>the Gnat Ada compiler? The pattern seems to be:
>>
>>  .a/.so files in /usr/lib
>>  .ali files in /usr/lib/xxx
>>  .ads/.adb files in /usr/include/xxx
>>
>>where xxx is the package that the library is a part of.
>
> The current packages aren't entirely consistent. libasis keeps the .ads
> and .adb files in /usr/lib/asis/ along with the .ali files.
>
> It might also be worth looking at Florian Weimer's proposed 'GNU Ada
> Environment Specification'[1], which proposes a different layout, with
> .ads and .adb files under /usr/{lib,share}/ada/adainclude, and .ali and
> .a files under /usr/lib/adalib.

  I have a question: whydo we have to keep .adb files in the package
  since .ads files are meant to contain the interface? (well, indeed
  except from generics).

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Jérôme Marant

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