[gtkada] Build from source code

[Chris Sparks]

John Marino wrote:
> In my experience, the Adacore source tarballs come with 
> "build/install" instructions to cover building from source. They are 
> generally complete although the configure and .gpr files sometimes 
> have additional information. They don't provide instructions on how to 
> build dependencies, nor would I expect them to provide them.
True there are build/install for all of it but I cannot make it compile 
out of the box.
> This is why Ludovic's work in Debian and my work in *BSD is so 
> important [1]. We've already done all this and wrote down the recipe 
> in the form of make/build files. Yes, there are tricks and 
> undocumented things sometimes, but these package systems capture that 
> knowledge. To recreate all of that on your own is reinventing the 
> wheel. [1] There are similar efforts by Slack and Arch users. 
Hmmm.  Well I'd be interested in learning more about this.
> Okay, I can see where Windows would make you reinvent the wheel. 
> Pkgsrc might work on windows but other than that, I don't know of 
> previous efforts. That might also explain why you feel that the 
> install instructions are lacking. Okay, disregard everything I just 
> said. I can't help much with windows. :) John
LOL!

chris