Hi Orion: Thanks for testing the Ada bindings and examples on Fedora. More below.
On 2008-02-11 11:54-0700 Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'm starting to update the Fedora plplot package to 5.9.0 and have some > questions about where the Ada bindings are installed, specifically: > > /usr/lib/ada/adalib/plplotadad/ > > and > > /usr/share/ada/adainclude/plplotadad/ > > Are these in any way "standard" install locations for Ada includes and > libraries? I don't see any packages in Fedora that provide the > /usr/lib/ada or /usr/share/ada directories, but then this may very well be > the first Ada package in Fedora. These locations are implemented and documented in cmake/modules/instdirs.cmake # Ada source files (*.adb, *.ads) (following recommendations in # http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html set(ADA_INCLUDE_DIR ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR}/ada/adainclude/plplotada${LIB_TAG}) # Ada library information files (*.ali) (following recommendations in # http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html set(ADA_LIB_DIR ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/ada/adalib/plplotada${LIB_TAG}) I only skimmed that Debian policy URL, but the impression I got was they were trying to follow general install location standards for Ada as best as possible. I also checked Debian Ada-related packages in general and they do seem to be following that install-location standard for Ada. I decided to adopt the Debian recommended install location for now because I could not find anything else, but if there is a better standard out there, it should be easy to switch to it. > Also, are either of these directories needed for *runtime* operation, or > just for compiling Ada programs using PLplot? I think the Ada source files (*.adb and *.ads) for our bindings and the Ada Library information files (*.ali) for our bindings are only needed to build the examples or any other Ada application that uses the Ada bindings for PLplot. So I think our installed *.adb, *.ads, and *.ali files belong in the development variation of the plplot binary packages. However, I am not completely sure on this issue. I guess the way to test it is to do a full install and build the installed Ada examples. Then remove all the *.adb, *.ads, and *.ali files (and the .so symlink for libplplotadad which should also belong in the development package) to see whether the Ada examples still run. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
