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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily