RE: [avr-libc-dev] avr-libc installation error

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Le Monday 07 April 2008 18:47:13 Weddington, Eric, vous avez écrit :
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> > > on gentoo you can also use crossdev which builds the 
> cross toolchain
> 
> > No, you cannot use crossdev for an AVR toolchain, as it has bugs.
> 
> Well, I do without too much trouble,  if you are thinking about 
> the "ldscripts/xxx.x: No such file or directory" bug [1], 
> well I agree it 
> pops out from time to time, and it's ugly.
> But the workaround is a one liner ... 
> ln -s /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/avr/lib/ldscripts/ 
> /usr/avr/lib/ldscripts
> or 
> ln -s /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/usr/avr/lib/ldscripts 
> /usr/avr/lib/ldscripts
> if you run on 32 bits ...
> I don't have any other problems with crossdev for avr ...

Yes, but it's an ugly workaround, because you are supposed to not need it. The 
only reason why you have to have that workaround is because crossdev builds a 
broken compiler.