[avr-libc-dev] AVR toolset on Linux, Mac?

[E. Weddington]

Hello All!

I just realized that I've had two seperate private threads going about 
getting the AVR toolset built for the Linux platform.

Anton, meet Knut. Knut, meet Anton. :-)
You both are interested in reproducing WinAVR on Linux and have asked me 
seperately about information.

Since the departure of Ted Roth from the project, there has been a 
vacuum in the Linux community for binary distributions (lets call them 
"distros") of the AVR toolset. Some people know of the existance of the 
"cdk4avr" project on SF: ......... I just did a quick check for it and 
now I can't seem to find it on SF. Perhaps it's defunct and been 
removed? Anyway, that *used* to be the only known Linux distro of the 
AVR toolset, but last I heard it was out-of-date.

Right now, there's Jörg Wunsch who maintains the FreeBSD distro, and I 
maintain the Windows distro. There's really no one doing a Linux distro. 
And Brian Dean is probably the most knowledgable about the AVR Toolset 
on the Mac.

Anton, Knut, would you both be interested in working together to produce 
a Linux distro? Colin, are you interested in this too? Inlcuding 
producing whatever is needed for installation, say RPMs? I'm not 
familiar in this area; I don't know which Linux distros you would be 
interested in and whether RPM's are necessary.

Anyone know where RPMs might be hosted? Jörg, isn't it correct that 
Savannah frowns on hosting binaries? Perhaps SourceForge would be ok?

Brian, do you host any binary installations of the AVR toolset for the 
Mac? If not, do you know of anyone who does? Do you know what format 
would be required for Mac?

I think that would just leave Solaris as the only platform left without 
a binary distro... :-)

Thanks everyone
Eric