Re: [avr-gcc-list] AVR environment on Solaris 10

[Ruud Vlaming]

Hi Anreas,

Thank you for trying. This seems not to encouraging. 
But, at least this tool tests before it runs into unclear errors... ;-)

Let me remark, that some of those tools are not specially
needed by my builder, but more for the build process itself,
which may not be as appearent as it may seem. Thus,
as long as you do not have automake for example, you 
will have a hard time getting the any avr toolchain
compiled if i remember correctly. The same applies for
libtool and some other guys.

On the other hand, it also can be that my version detection
mechnism does not work correctly on Solaris. Determining
the version of a program is difficult since the way programs
report their version numbers is different per program and (!)
different per operating system.

My advise would be to make sure you update/install
the tools that are to old/missing, since i guess you will
need most of them for a correct build anyway.
(With or without my script!) Since these are all pretty 
standard tools, using whatever packet manager is used 
for Solaris, this should be not to hard.

After that you can give it an other try. If you think you
do have a particular tool, contrary to what my builder
reports, (automake for example) try typing that on 
the commandline, if it reports present, than my script
is not able to detect is somehow, and i must fix that first.

Succes.
Ruud.

On Tuesday 01 December 2009, you wrote:
> Hi Ruud,
> 
> > You can give my toolchainbuilder a try. Although it is
> > not tested on Solaris, it runs on gentoo, Ubuntu, macos
> > windows with cygwin, and probably others. It installs
> > all patches, takes care of GMP and MPFR etc. If it runs,
> > please say so, i can add it to the list. If not, send me
> > the log, so i can solve it.
> >
> > It is in my Femto OS distribution.
> >   http://sourceforge.net/projects/femtoos/
> 
> I gave it a try and got
> 
> ===> testing tools
> ERROR: aclocal not present, script cannot continue.
> WARNING: ar version could not be detected. (Needed: >= 2.16.1)
> ERROR: autoconf not present, script cannot continue.
> ERROR: autoheader not present, script cannot continue.
> ERROR: automake not present, script cannot continue.
> WARNING: bison version: 1.875, tool may be too old. (Needed: >= 2.1)
> WARNING: flex version: 2.5.31, tool may be too old. (Needed: >= 2.5.33)
> ERROR: gawk not present, script cannot continue.
> OK: gcc version: 4.2.3
> OK: g++ version: 4.2.3
> WARNING: install version could not be detected. (Needed: >= 5.94)
> ERROR: libtool not present, script cannot continue.
> OK: make version: 3.80
> WARNING: makeinfo version: 4.7, tool may be too old. (Needed: >= 4.8)
> OK: openssl version: 0.9.8
> WARNING: patch version could not be detected. (Needed: >= 2.5.8)
> WARNING: perl version: 5.8.4, tool may be too old. (Needed: >= 5.8.8)
> WARNING: touch version could not be detected. (Needed: >= 5.94)
> OK: wget version: 1.10.2
> ===> Test done.
> 
> ===> Results of this script:
> - tools: failure
> - download: skipped
> - patches: skipped
> - bin-utils: skipped
> - gcc: skipped
> - avr-libc: skipped
> - avr-dude: skipped
> 
> Seems a bunch of packages are missing! :-(
> 
> I wonder what's the best way to proceed. Try to install/upgrade all 
> these guys or try to get gcc built manually!? What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Andreas
> 
> 
> 
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