[Fedora-packaging] Ada guidelines changes for Comfignat and runpaths

Pavel Zhukov pavel at zhukoff.net
Sun Dec 8 10:12:51 UTC 2013


On Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:12:41 PM Björn Persson wrote:
> I would like to propose two additions to the Ada guidelines. The Trac
> ticket is here:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/374
> 
> Comfignat is a new build system built around the GNAT tools and
> designed to make packaging easy. The RPM macro Comfignat_make handles
> building a Comfignat-using package with the right configuration for
> Fedora. This macro needs to be mentioned in the Ada guidelines. I
> propose this change:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rombobeorn/Ada_Guidelines_C
> hanges_2&diff=361215&oldid=361212
> 
Is comfignat packaged in Fedora?  Is anyone going to use it? 
> A macro named GNAT_add_rpath can be defined in spec files to allow a
> runpath to be added, for example in test suites or auxiliary programs
> that aren't installed but run during the build. This should also be
> explained in the Ada guidelines. I propose this addition:
Is it really needed?  We can use LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the %check section to make 
it.  For example matreshka works fine with it. 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rombobeorn/Ada_Guidelines_C
> hanges_2&diff=361216&oldid=361215
> 
> Here's the complete proposed new version of the Ada guidelines:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rombobeorn/Ada_Guidelines_Changes_2
> 
> Björn Persson

-- 
Pavel


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