RE: [avr-gcc-list] avr-libc-1.7.0 fails to compile

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georg Lay [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:45 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-libc-1.7.0 fails to compile
> 
> Weddington, Eric schrieb:
> > Hi Georg,
> > 
> > I would recommend these things:
> > 
> > - Build avr-libc from the current trunk, and use "make -k". I'm
> 
> What's latest stable? 1.6.8?

Hmm. Yes, that's probably latest stable. There was a major regression in 1.7.0 
that recently got fixed, and then this little build hiccup that I'm working on 
fixing. 


> 
> > currently working on a set of changes to avr-libc that should get
> > it to build without the -k switch to make. - Please don't use gcc
> > 4.5.1 for any real-world work. I've heard that there are bug
> > reports against AVR GCC 4.5.x that need to get fixed. However, if
> > you're using 4.5.1 to do some testing on the AVR port then that
> > would be very helpful.
> 
> Never actually used avr-gcc 4.x on my projects. Just doing some
> benchmarks with 4.x then and when and therefore still stuck at 3.4.6.

Understood. AVR GCC 4.4.3 seems stable so far. But, depending on your 
benchmarks you may, or may not, want to stick with 3.4.6, also depending on 
your criteria.

 
> Was just being curious and tried to build latest avr tools and to
> catch up with current state of avr-gcc. Seems to me as if development
> of avr-gcc is dead somehow? So the development had not been stopped
> because avr-gcc is mature, though :o)

I wouldn't say that development of avr-gcc is dead. It is the usual culprit: 
never enough people to test and fix. Hopefully that should be fixed soon-ish, 
but I'm always hesitant to promise anything.