From: Daniel B. <dl...@gm...> - 2012-11-25 19:41:10
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:20:16PM -0600, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > Bouncy robot powered by mspgcc+olpc/Sugar+msp430 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-jrNkWtavM > > So far mspdebug Linux tools "work" in OLPC's XO computer using the > directions in > http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1 (major overhaul > today, courtesy of a cold/flu) > > 1) I beg mspdebug people to vet excessive heresies this noob might > have introduced in the How-To in that page. > So far I am managing without -mcu - or -gdb. > I actually have no idea what those are for, or if their > unavailability explains my so far failure to UART, or if we should > care... (for many things, it ain't broken...) I'm not sure what you mean by -mcu (do you mean msp430mcu?), but gdb is the source-level debugger. It's useful, but optional. > 2) Fedora packaging people: any way to package > mspdebug msp430-libc msp430-binutils msp430-gcc msp430mcu msp430-gdb ? > What gets downloaded through yum channels in the XO is very, very > outdated, and conflicts (cf. mcu and libc). > Please feel free to forward, as I have no access to "real" Fedora > people - don't even know where to look for them without making a > nuisance of myself and undue noise, and certainly do not know who > could maybe make a "package"(?) usable for the XO. Will this be > fixable for the next OLPC OS? > Daniel? I'm not a Fedora expert, but I suspect that maybe the old msp430 libc package contains the files which are now distributed separately in msp430mcu. I'm not sure how things could work otherwise. It might pay to try compiling the toolchain from source. It's actually not too difficult, and you can build/install each package separately: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mspgcc/index.php?title=Install:fromsource I'd recommend that you uninstall your old toolchain first, and install the new one into some prefix of its own (e.g. /opt/mspgcc instead of /usr/local). Change the --prefix= arguments to configure accordingly, and make sure /opt/mspgcc/bin or the equivalent is in your PATH after compiling binutils. - Daniel -- Daniel Beer <dl...@gm...> www.dlbeer.co.nz IRC: inittab (Freenode) PGP key: 2048D/160A553B |