[gtkada] GtkAda and distributed programming with gnat-glade?

David C. Hoos, Sr. david.c.hoos.sr at ada95.com
Thu Apr 12 21:23:03 CEST 2001


My recollection is that gnat distributed programs indeed _DO_
use a different version of s-stratt.adb (the stream attributes body)
because distributed programs need platform-independent
data representations on the transport medium.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant at mail.utexas.edu>
To: "- GtkAda" <gtkada at gtkada.eu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 11:20 PM
Subject: [gtkada] GtkAda and distributed programming with gnat-glade?


> Is there a trick to getting GtkAda to work with distributed programs
> based on gnat-glade?  (I.e., compiled with gnatdist.)
> 
> I have a skeletal program that compiles and works OK without GtkAda, but
> as soon as I put in a "with gtk.window" I get a cascade of compilation
> errors starting with:
> 
> error: "s-finroo.adb" must be recompiled ("s-stratt.adb" has been
> modified)
> error: "s-stratt.adb" has been modified and must be recompiled
> ...
> 
> 
> gnatdist seems to be giving a spurious error message, since s-stratt.adb
> manifestly has *not* been changed.
> 
> If anyone has worked through this problem previously and has tips about
> where I should go from here, I would appreciated it.
> 
> I am not trying to distribute the GUI over multiple partitions; use of
> GtkAda is limited to a single package that has no pragmas pertaining to
> distributed programming.
> 
> 
> My components are from the ALT RPMs:
> 
> GtkAda-1.2.10-2
> gnat-3.13p-5
> gnat-glade-3.13p-5
> 
> Linux 2.4.2
> /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.1.so
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bobby Bryant
> Austin, Texas
> 
> 
> 
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