Re: [avrdude-dev] Documentation build tools requirements -many complaints

[Mike Murphree]

On Feb 5, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Brian Dean wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:51:19PM +1300, Alex Shepherd wrote:
>
> > Well have managed to get the build system to fully configure/compile
> > under Cygwin on Windows so I would have thought it should not be too
> > hard for many others - especially on a UNIX variant. :))
>
> FreeBSD and Mac OS X at least do not ship by default with the tools
> needed.  The FreeBSD ports system allows easy installation of the
> needed tools, but it is bandwidth intensive and time consuming to
> obtain and build them if you didn't have them previously installed.
> There may be lighter weight alternatives.
>
> The same tools are available on Mac OS X but the bandwidth needed and
> time to build them is similar of course.  I generally use the Darwin
> Ports mechanism to install this kind of thing if the port is available
> there.  If not, I do it the old fashioned way :-)

I've about given up on Darwin Ports to reach the same completeness 
level that Fink has.
They're just not comparable to what the FreeBSD ports system is able to 
do.

> The main issue is that installing the tools to build the doc is orders
> of magnitude more time consuming and difficult that building avrdude
> itself.

I'd rather have simpler docs installed than building lots of extraneous 
stuff that I hardly ever use on the Mac.

Mike