RE: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc toolchain problem

[Eric Weddington]

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> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:26 PM
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> Subject: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc toolchain problem
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbie to this list, so please forgive me if this is an
> elementary problem.
>
> I recently built the avr-gcc toolchain on my Gentoo AMD-64
> system.  I used the following command to build it:
>
>
>
> crossdev --target avr
>
> It seemed to work fine.  However to test the installation I
> downloaded two different projects from the avrfreaks site and
> tried to build them.  I ran into the same issue with both of them:
>
>
>
> avr-gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
>  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
>
> Linking: main.elf
> avr-gcc -mmcu=atmega169 -I. -g -DF_CPU=1000000UL -Os
> -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fpack-struct
> -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=main.o
> -std=gnu99 -Wundef -MMD -MP -MF .dep/main.elf.d main.o
> timer0.o BCD.o usart.o ADC.o RTC.o bfeeprom.o dataflash.o
> button.o LCD_functions.o LCD_driver.o vcard.o sound.o test.o
> --output main.elf -Wl,-Map=main.map,--cref     -lm
> /usr/libexec/gcc/avr/ld: cannot open linker script file
> ldscripts/avr5.x: No such file or directory
>
> So apparently avr-ld can't locate the ldscripts/avr5.x file.
>

I have a colleague here who used crossdev on Gentoo for the AVR toolchain
and ran into the same problem. He says:
"Make a symbolic link in your source directory to the ldscripts directory.
That's totally cheezy and wrong, but you can compile the code then."

YMMV. HTH.
Eric Weddington