RE: [avr-gcc-list] Installing WinAVR 20070122 broke older 3.4.5install?

[Eric Weddington]

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> org] On Behalf Of Bob Paddock
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Installing WinAVR 20070122 broke 
> older 3.4.5install?
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:16:44 -0500, Eric Weddington  
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> 
> > Yes, there are three keys being installed in the registry:
> >
> > HKLM\Software\Free Software Foundation\WinAVR\GCC
> > HKLM\Software\Free Software Foundation\WinAVR\BINUTILS
> > HKLM\Software\Free Software Foundation\WinAVR\G++
> >
> > Each of these keys should be set to the installation directory.
> 
> Thank you.  I missed seeing anything in the documentation about those.

My apologies. You didn't miss seeing them; they're not there. I need to add
that to the docs.


 
> > I would suggest just removing these keys altogether and see 
> if it works  
> > for your system.
> 
> I removed them, then rebooted.  Didn't help.  It appears that
> there is something hard-coded to point to C:\WinAVR .
> I should be able to fix the problem in my setup batch files
> by using XP's Junction feature; XP's version of symbolic links.

C:\WinAVR is the "prefix" path that I mentioned, where I install WinAVR when
I build it. Yes, it *is* hard-coded into GCC. There's nothing I can do about
that. :-/

Eric Weddington