On 2006-03-19, Steve Underwood <ste...@coppice.org> wrote:

>>Are you sure you don't get any warning??  If so, I may switch
>>to gcc 3.3.  I'm using 3.2, since that's the latest "released"
>>version from mspgcc.sourceforge.net.
>
> I would recommend not using 3.3. We use 3.2 for a good reason. It works 
> better. A number of things done in 3.3 and 3.4 benefit x86 compilation, 
> but seem to hurt compilation for other processors.

That's too bad.

>>It looks like they're at 3.3.2. I must admit I'm pretty baffled
>>by the statement at cdk4msp.sourceforge.net that says:
>>
>>    CDK4MSP is based on the GCC toolchain for the Texas
>>    Intruments MSP430 MCUs maintained by Dimitry Diky and Chris
>>    Lichti at Sourceforge (http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/). Til
>>    now MSPGCC supports Win32 developer systems as best as
>>    possible. There is no really good Linux support.
>>
>>What do they mean?  The files I downloaded from
>>mspgcc.sourceforge.net worked fine under Linux.  Have they
>>(cdk4msp) done something besides build RPMs?
>
> I have no idea what that means. However, if you follow the steps in the 
> manual, installation on most Linux systems is very straightforward.

It certainly worked fine for me, but I've been building gcc
cross-compilers for many years, so maybe I've forotten how
baffling the process can be the first time.

-- 
Grant Edwards
gra...@visi.com


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