# Making AUnit available to gprbuild **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** ada, gnat, aunit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/making-aunit-available-to-gprbuild/1879 "2025-03-11T10:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![fatso83](https://forum.ada-lang.io/user_avatar/forum.ada-lang.io/fatso83/32/624_2.png) [@fatso83](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/fatso83)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/making-aunit-available-to-gprbuild/1879/3 "2025-03-11T13:35:58Z")
That was it! Adjusting the install path for aunit when installing made it available. **Related question** Is it it possible to adjust the globally searched paths using some environment variable or some setting that GPRBuild will use? The suggested `GPR_PROJECT_PATH` did not seem to take effect, or it was perhaps used incorrectly. Thanks! # Details ## Showing the default project search directories ```ada aunit/examples/simple_test on  master [!?] ✦ ❯ gprbuild -vm GPRBUILD 24.0.0 (2024-08-01) (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2004-2024, AdaCore using project file harness.gpr 33 lines: No errors TMPDIR = "/tmp/GPR.49115" gprconfig --batch -o /tmp/GPR.49115/GNAT-TEMP-000001.TMP --target=x86_64-linux --fallback-targets --config=ada,,,, Checking configuration /tmp/GPR.49115/GNAT-TEMP-000001.TMP Setting the default project search directories Adding directory "/opt/gnat-x86_64-linux-14.2.0-1/x86_64-linux/share/gpr" Adding directory "/opt/gnat-x86_64-linux-14.2.0-1/x86_64-linux/lib/gnat" Adding directory "/opt/gnat-x86_64-linux-14.2.0-1/share/gpr" Adding directory "/opt/gnat-x86_64-linux-14.2.0-1/lib/gnat" ``` This shows that the sub directories of the gprbuild install was not being searched. ## Adjusting the install path for AUnit ```ada make install INSTALL=/opt/gnat-x86_64-linux-14.2.0-1 ``` Now I could revert the change from using absolute directory paths to using global shared libraries, such as `with "aunit";` ```diff ✦ ❯ git diff diff --git a/examples/simple_test/harness.gpr b/examples/simple_test/harness.gpr index f445b8d..a12f6fd 100644 --- a/examples/simple_test/harness.gpr +++ b/examples/simple_test/harness.gpr @@ -1,4 +1,10 @@ -with "aunit"; +-- Requires Aunit to be globally available +-- See https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/making-aunit-available-to-gprbuild/1879/2 + with "aunit"; +-- If AUnit has not been made available, it will need to be included by path +--with "../../lib/gnat/aunit.gpr"; +--with "/opt/gprbuild-x86_64-linux-24.0.0-2/share/gpr/aunit.gpr"; + with "tested_lib/testlib"; project Harness is ``` --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/making-aunit-available-to-gprbuild/1879)._