Re: USB Boarduino on AVR-Ada Tutorial

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:26:32 +0100, Brian Drummond
<brian_drummond@btconnect.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 06:13:31 -0700 (PDT), Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote:

>>Brian, I made some minor tweaks to the tutorial to be clearer about
>>the
>>platforms (and fixed the unix path). 
>
>Very useful clarifications, thanks!
>
>It'll probably be the weekend before I can try it, but the instructions now give
>me much more confidence that it'll work on Linux.

Several weekends later, I have managed to spend a few hours on this.

None of the obvious (to me) approaches to installing the tools have worked
smoothly on my machine (running OpenSuse 11.3).

The closest I've got is using the cross-avr-binutils (2.20) and cross-avr-gcc
(4.5.0) packages from OpenSuse, available as binary and source rpms. The binary
version is built without Ada support, but the source builds without apparent
complaints, to support Ada.  Ditto avr-libc v1.70 (with more difficulty) from
the same source.

Now the AVR-Ada package (1.1-0) won't build, complaining that "avr-gnatprep" is
not found (and indeed I can't find it!, though gnatbind is present) 

Does anyone know which package SHOULD supply gnatprep, so I can try to track
down what's missing?)


Incidentally the AVR-Ada package contains a do-it-all script based around
GCC4.3.2. This fails, building binutils, with compile errors in tc-avr.c. 
Presumably it would work if I could dig out a 4.3 era GCC, but that's not a
trivial route either.

- Brian