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Cannot install Ada mode

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From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Left Right <olegsivokon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org>, 66017 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66017: Cannot install Ada mode
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:37:35 +0200

Left Right <olegsivokon <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to install Ada mode in Emacs 29.1 on Manjaro.
>
> This is my experience so far:
>
> ❯ cd ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ada-mode-8.0.5
> ❯ ./build.sh
> alr is /usr/local/bin/alr
> building ada-mode executables via Alire
> error: Crate [emacs_ada_mode~8.0.5] does not exist in the catalog.
> ./build.sh: line 16: cd: emacs_ada_mode_*: No such file or directory
> error: Cannot continue with invalid session:
> error:    Could not detect a session folder at current or parent locations
>
> When I try searching for this crate:
>
> ❯ alr index --update-all
> Already up to date.
> ❯ alr search emacs
> No hits
>
> Also, documentation mentions that Ada mode is supposed to be built-in,
> but unless I install this package from ELPA, there's no Ada mode in my
> Emacs installation.
>
> I found this page: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/emacs_ada_mode.html
> which seems to imply that the crate exists, but I don't understand why
> alr isn't finding it. (I'm very new to Ada).
>
> Any help would be very welcome.
>
> Best.
>
> Oleg

Stephen Leake (in is the maintainer of ada-mode, 

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