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[Amforth-devel] compiling avra

[Elliott C. <ec...@te...>]

For the time being I am planning to use the static version, but I have 
been asked what happened when I failed to compile avra from source:

Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found

As a late friend might have said: It bagles the mind. Why might such 
files be needed?

-- 
Elliott Chapin
http://clients.teksavvy.com/~echapin

Re: [Amforth-devel] compiling avra

[Matthias T. <mt...@we...>]

Hi,

Elliott Chapin wrote:

> Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
> Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
>
> As a late friend might have said: It bagles the mind. Why might such
> files be needed?

an easy and quick fix is simply create the files ("touch NEWS Changelog")
but that does not really solves the problem...

The best solution (IMHO!) for avra would be to separate the controller
settings
into a config file. just like avrdude does it. This would eliminate the
constant
code changes in order to support new controllers.

Matthias

PS: you should ask that question in the avra lists or file a bugreport there,
amforth only uses (or try to use) avra. I'm happy with wine and avrasm2 and
can wait for avra being fixed. I do not fight religious wars on
windows/linux....

Re: [Amforth-devel] compiling avra

[Marcin C. <sa...@sa...>]

>> Matthias Trute <mt...@we...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Elliott Chapin wrote:
>
>> Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
>> Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
>>
>> As a late friend might have said: It bagles the mind. Why might such
>> files be needed?
>
> an easy and quick fix is simply create the files ("touch NEWS Changelog")
> but that does not really solves the problem...
>
> The best solution (IMHO!) for avra would be to separate the controller
> settings
> into a config file. just like avrdude does it. This would eliminate the
> constant
> code changes in order to support new controllers.

Yeah, I promise I will work on that. There is some strange autoconf
stuff we need to get rid of.

Can you try this:

- unpack avra, I am using:

git clone git://avra.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/avra/avra avra

cd avra/src
make -f makefile/Makefile.linux clean
make -f makefile/Makefile.linux

you should get a working "avra" in the src directory, try:

./avra

//Marcin

Re: [Amforth-devel] compiling avra

[Erich W. <ew....@na...>]

Hi,

> - unpack avra, I am using:
>
> git clone git://avra.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/avra/avra avra
>
> cd avra/src
> make -f makefile/Makefile.linux clean
> make -f makefile/Makefile.linux
>
> you should get a working "avra" in the src directory, try:

   $ make -f ./makefiles/Makefile.linux LDFLAGS=''
   $ ./avra --version
   AVRA: advanced AVR macro assembler Version 1.3.0 Build 1 (8 May 2010)
   ...

it's makefiles/... with 's'.
On amd64 I currently need the trailing LDFLAGS='' to remove the "-s"
compiler option. Otherwise I get a relocation error. Using strip
separately afterwards is save.

Erich

Re: [Amforth-devel] compiling avra

[Marcin C. <sa...@sa...>]

>> Erich Waelde <ew....@na...> wrote:
> it's makefiles/... with 's'.

thanks, of course you are right, sorry for my mistake

> On amd64 I currently need the trailing LDFLAGS='' to remove the "-s"
> compiler option. Otherwise I get a relocation error. Using strip
> separately afterwards is save.

I tried that on two Linux boxes running amd64 (gentoo and ubuntu server)
and I couldn't reproduce this at all. Can you compile some simple C
pogram with "-s"? ("-s" is actually a linker option).

//Marcin