Hello, David.
You wrote 8 июля 2013 г., 16:11:39:
DB> In an ideal world, TI would maintain its own apt repository (and yum),
And FreeBSD packages for i386, amd64, arm, MIPS, PowerPC, and ia64? And
repository for NetBSD and OpenBSD and MacOS X too?
DB> supporting the toolchains for a variety of distros. But there should
DB> not be packages such as "msp430-gcc" and "msp430-libc" in these
DB> repositories - there should be packages such as
DB> "msp430-release-20130708" containing all the toolchain. And these
DB> should not contain files such as "/usr/bin/msp430-gcc" - they should
DB> contain files such as "/opt/msp430-20130708/bin/msp430-gcc". Of course
DB> such binaries should not be on the user's path - you must say exactly
DB> which toolchain you want in your makefile (or Eclipse/CCS project setup).
It is COMPLETELY out of unix-way! And, yes, what should FreeBSD users do
in this your big-corporation-centric "ideal world", for example?
Good toolchain should be based on official released sources (not some
obscure snapshots from binutils/gcc GIT), and be integrated in upstream
(so, it build should be as easy as "./configure --target-=msp430 && gmake
all install") or provided as one manageable patchset, not targeted for ANY
specific host (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Widnows, FreeBSD, whatever).
It is work of OS/Distro maintainers to build binary packages for specific
OS/Distro, in format, used in this OS/Distro. For example, FreeBSD doesn't
have /opt at all! And, of course, it needs completely different binaries.
And, of course, it is used to have ${target}-prefixed tools here!
Peter's MSP430-gcc is IDEAL way to distribute OPEN SOURCE toolchain!
And I had enough this Linux- and corporate-centric shit in times of first
Non-WinCE-based PD "Agenda VR3", which had toolchain in binary-only form,
and sources looks like "get this snapshot of egcs3 and apply these 1348.5
patches in order which is our trade secret"!
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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <l...@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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