Waf and Ada?

[Chris Johns]

On 4/10/19 3:17 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 03/10/2019 04:38, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 2/10/19 9:21 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>
>>> the waf build prototype contains no examples for building Ada objects, libraries
>>> and executables.
>>>
>>> https://git.rtems.org/amar/waf-old.git/
>>>
>>> Searching the internet revealed also nothing. It would be great to have an
>>> example for building an Ada test executable (mix of C and Ada files).
>>
>> The best way to handle this is to create a tool for Ada ...
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/ita1024/waf/tree/master/waflib/Tools
>> https://github.com/BNLIF/waf-tools
>>
>> I am sure Thomas would be happy to accept such a tool. He is on IRC #rtems as
>> ita.
> 
> Thanks for the hint. So, the Ada support for RTEMS first requires Ada support
> for waf. I will probably work on this with a low priority.
> 

It is not an absolute requirement however adding a tool upstream makes the long
term maintenance simpler for RTEMS.

Chris