Re: [avr-chat] binutils, gcc and avr-libc versions

[Juergen Harms]

Same problem in the Mageia distribution - the cross-compiler broke after 
an upgrade of gcc - avr-binutils had to be upgraded correspondingly 
before re-building the cross-compiler.

With the combination of binutils 2.23 and gcc 4.72 the cross-compiler 
now builds OK, using the standard make procedures from the avr-gcc 
tarball. You might want to have a look at the Mageia spec-file in the 
Mageia svn at svnweb.mageia.org, going down the tree via packages and 
cauldron (that is the development version). This is now distributed both 
with the stable Mageia-2 and the development version.

And yes, user code also needs a lot of upgrading, not only
the problem of needing const declarations with PROGMEM, but also that 
memory-type specifications must not be used any more with type 
declarations - another one of the "more corrects".

Jürgen