[Emacs-ada-mode] emacs ada mode troubles

[Stephen Leake]

Joe Schafer <joseph.schafer at usma.edu> writes:

> Hey all, I'm having trouble with ada-mode, specifically with
> projects.

Ok. Please subscribe to the Ada mode mailing list, so I don't have to
approve your messages.

> I'm using emacs 23.0.60.1 on Ubuntu 8.10

I don't have that distribution; currently I'm running Emacs 22.2 on
Windows. But the Ada mode menu should be the same.

> I'm going through the examples under "Compiling Examples"
>
> For example 1 when I check the hello.adb I get this.
> For some reason it doesn't show any errors
>
>
>> -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "~/prog/ada/examples/Example_1/" -*-
>> Compilation started at Sat Sep  6 21:47:56
>> 
>> gcc -x ada -c -gnatq -gnatQ /home/joe/prog/ada/examples/Example_1/hello.adb -gnats
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Compilation finished at Sat Sep  6 21:47:56

First; did you leave out the 'use Ada.Text_IO;' line? That is the
error; it can be hard to type incorrect code deliberately.

Second; run gcc from a bash shell (under Emacs or not), and mess with
the file hello.adb until you do get an error.

Finally; what menu item or keystroke did you invoke? 'Ada | check
file' runs gnatmake, not gcc -x ada. Unless you've overridden that
somewhere. Please run this with 'emacs -Q'.

> There's not "set main and build" option under the menu either.

What is on the Ada menu? It should be:

Help
Options
Customize
Check file
Compile file
Set main and Build
...

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