The consensus is that Linux users trying to compile the avr toolchain should 
avoid crossdev like the plague.

There is a sticky at the top of the AVRfreaks.net GCC forum on compiling the 
toolchain for Ubuntu.  I recommend following that set of scripts to see if it 
solves your problem. 

Best regards, 

Stu Bell 
DataPlay (DPHI, Inc.) 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> On Behalf Of Sven Köhler
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:14 AM
> To: avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org
> Subject: [avr-libc-dev] headers only / bootstrapping an avr toolchain
> 
> Hi,
> 
> at the moment, i'm trying to help the Gentoo developers to 
> find a way of bootstrapping an avr toolchain.
> 
> Normally Gentoo's tool called "crossdev" would do the following:
> - install binutils-avr
> - install avr-libc-headers
> - install avr-gcc
> - install avr-libc
> 
> But the status quo is, that the process fails because of an 
> unresolved circular dependency:
> 
> - avr-libc needs avr-gcc
> - avr-gcc needs avr-libc headers
> 
> I'd need a way, to install avr-libc's headers only. I need to 
> bypass all checks for avr-gcc. I dream of doing something like:
> 
> - ./configure --headers-only
> - make all
> - make install
> 
> But avr-libc's current configure doesn't allow that to 
> happen. It always checks for avr-gcc, but of course it 
> doesn't find it.
> 
> 
> Can you think of a way to enhance avr-libc with a "install 
> headers-only" 
> mode?
> 
> If not, how is an avr toolchain supposed to be bootstrapped?
> 
> 
> Regards,
>    Sven
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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