Re: [avr-gcc-list] Compiling avr-libc-1_2-branch from cvs

[John Altstadt]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> John Altstadt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > > Yep, these auto tools are not very consistent.  [...]
>
>
> > I do have to say that in >20 years of designing large and small
> > embedded systems, I have never once felt the urge to use any
> > autotools. :-)
>
>
> Sure, for just your own tool, you don't need that.  But if you want
> something that can be compiled on different OSes, where you can check
> for the prerequisite software, and want to offer the users some
> choices including that of the final installation location (configure
> --prefix), *something* like these tools is really handy.

As I said, embedded systems. When you use 2MLOC to run multiple 
non-heterogeneous processors on a single board (the daughter board had 
up to another 448 DSP cores on it, but their binary was supplied by a 
third party developer), you don't much care about different OSs.

You also don't load something like that on an AVR.

John