I'm winding up on an embedded project that will use the Texas Instruments LM3S811 embedded ARM processor. Some searching around on the web shows me that there isn't much support to be found for the gnu-arm tool set any more -- all of the web pages with dates are several years old, and the ones without dates are all for building the tools with the old versions.
Whenever this situation is mentioned at all, links point to commercial sites, including Codesourcery, which does an "open source" gnu tool set -- but they sure don't publish their source very openly!!! So, I cave. I download their binary distribution of their "Codesourcery lite", and I run it. I get the following message: t...@servo:~/Downloads$ ./arm-2009q3-67-arm-none-linux-gnueabi.bin The installer has detected that your system uses the dash shell as /bin/sh. This shell is not supported by the installer. You can work around this problem by changing /bin/sh to be a symbolic link to a supported shell such as bash. For example, on Ubuntu systems, execute this shell command: % sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash Install as /bin/sh? No Please refer to the Getting Started guide for more information, or contact CodeSourcery Support for assistance. t...@servo:~/Downloads$ Do I want to touch this? Is this going to screw up _other_ software that may be looking for 'sh' to be a Dash shell command? Or am I fairly safe playing with it? And do I want to just change the link manually, or do I want to use dpgk-reconfigure as they suggest? Ooooh, I'm soooo confused. This is violating my implicit contract with Ubuntu "Good training wheels" Linux. (I am, frankly, far more comfortable with the idea of doing my own build, if only there were _real_ source available. Grr. Grump.) -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
