AdaCore/gtkada

Circular dependency

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FredPraca commented

Hello,
I'm trying to update ports on FreeBSD but I run into a chicken-egg problem.
To build gtkada reference manual, I need gnatdoc which is part of GPS.
The problem is that GPS requires gtkada to be installed.
So, to build gtkada reference manual, I would need a kind of gtkada bootstrap library to build gps and then build gtkada reference manual.

Should not gnatdoc be a project on its own ?

setton commented

Yes this is unfortunate, and yes the plan is for gnatdoc to become its own project, when we have switched it to use libadalang as the engine for cross-references, rather than the GPS engine...

FredPraca commented

Thanks for your quick answer Nicolas.
So for the moment, I will just disable the build for the reference manual.

Do we keep this issue open until gnatdoc appears on its own ?

setton commented

This is a reasonable workaround for now, and yes I propose to keep the issue open until we have resolved it.