[gtkada] improvements to the GtkAda build system

[Björn Persson]

Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> We don't want to change relative path to absolute path, this makes it
> impossible to relocate installations.
> 
> I know that in the free software world, people often do not
> understand/appreciate the notion of "relocatable binary distribution"
> (although more so under Windows than under unix) and think that you can
> simply redo a configure/make install if you want to relocate, but this
> approach does not work in an industrial/commercial context.

On the other hand the relative paths don't work in a 64-bit Fedora where the 
libraries are in /usr/lib64 but the project files have to be in /usr/lib/gnat. 

I suppose I could make an option to allow choosing between absolute and 
relative paths. Is there a chance that you would accept that?

Björn
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