Re: avr-ada ubuntu cross-compiler build failed

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:51:07 -0800 (PST), Adrianr <roldanadrian@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Thanks for your response and for the reading material.
>
>I was trying to build with the automatic-like script.
>
> I'll try the traditional way this weekend.
>
>Regards.

I had immense problems with this, apparently because it requires a GCC 4.3-era
native compiler, and my distro (OpenSuse 11.3) doesn't have anything quite so
old. GCC 4.5 finds too many errors in the GCC4.3-era (C++) sources.

I then found Tero Koskinen's avr-gcc 4.5 rpm's pre-built, and they installed
successfully.

http://iki.fi/tero.koskinen/avr-gnat/rpms

They are not a complete set, (at least, for OpenSuse 11.3) I needed to add 
avr-binutils (avr-binutils-2.20-2.fc13.x86_64.rpm) and
avr-libc (avr-libc-1.6.7-2.fc13.noarch.rpm), 
both from rpm.pbone.net. 

My dreams of success were short-lived, though, when someone pointed out a
catastrophic bug in GCC4.5.0 targeting the AVR...

(search the obvious place for a comp.lang.ada thread called
"AVR-Ada and GCC4.5.0 revisited"
for more details)

I may have to try again, first installing a GCC4.3 compiler (possibly the
"libre" Adacore one), then following the automatic script.

- Brian