Steve Underwood writes:
> Good idea, but the first paragraph somewhat wrong :-(
>
<goon show>
<eccles voice>
Well - nobody's perfect!
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</goon show>
> Strictly speaking the mspgcc project concerns itself with the whole
> toolchain :-)
>
I got the impression that the hope was to hand it off to the binutils people
as of pretty well right now. Is it more accurate to state that the mspgcc
developers will still maintain the msp430 parts of binutils, but that they'll
be available from the binutils site and not the mspgcc site?
I was sure I'd seen comments on the msp430-users list to the effect that the
binutils from the mspgcc pages was deprecated.
> You will find binutils development for the MSP430 here. It has only just
> been merged with the master binutils at sources.redhat.com. There is no
> binutils release - only snapshots - which contain the MSP430 support.
>
Ah - I'm a bit ahead of reality then. So it isn't 2.13 that carries MSP430
support, it will be 2.14 whenever that comes out?
I *did* say it was a first cut at a HOWTO!
Meanwhile, J.C.Wren wrote:
> Looks good, although you might want to add more detail on fetching the
> sources and building them. Also perhaps detailed instructions for both
> whatever is considered the most stable version, and the latest CVS builds.
>
I considered that building your own toolset from source was for experienced
people who wouldn't want to read the HOWTO anyway. It's aimed at all those
novice people we see on the mailing list all the time who would like to get
going ASAP with downloaded distribution binaries. Especially anyone in
industry who needs to convince a pointy-haired-boss that linux will be
a great development environment.
HOWTOs can help people get started and highlight oddities. There's no
distribution download for libHIL.so for instance. Not something I'd noticed
until I started putting all my notes together. My libHIL.so is built from CVS
but does it have to be done like that?
But sure, more fine detail can be added as time goes on. And not just by me.
Anyone with CVS write capability want to volunteer to put the .sgml into the
repository for me please?
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