On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, John R Pierce wrote:
On 11/27/12 8:31 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
That said, 'twould be nice to have a clue what went wrong with the Bingo script.
it was written for a specific ubuntu/debian flavor and not tested elsewhere. autoconf is a gnarly thing, the scripts for it need to be carefully developed, just because what you do with it works on a single platform does NOT automatically mean it will work on all platforms.
I'd thought that was the point of autoconf.
I note there's a source package on that AVR site, it might be worth trying to build from there. optimally, get that to build, then package it as an RPM, and get it into one of the more popular repositories, and all that 'repos are bad' nonsense goes away.
Maybe later, much later. I've never built an RPM. The only real compiler I've built is avr-gcc from the Bingo scripts. I've battled autoconf-generated scripts before and lost every time. That said, I have managed to build X from source. I just followed directions and voila, there it was. I did look at its build system. It was a horror. Had it not worked perfectly, I would have been out of luck.