Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Yet another Avr-gcc_Simulavr_Avr-Gdb_DDD-howto, Was: Re: avr-libc install problem

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 06:32:59PM +1000, Terry Porter wrote:
> > Pictures and files :
> > http://milkstone.d2.net.au/embedded.html
> >
> > My little howto:-
> > http://milkstone.d2.net.au/electronics/micro/avr-gcc-installing-2003.html
>
>    Ahh! Manna from heaven.
>
>    I was wondering how to tickle simulavr into doing something. (The
>    manpage and info seemed to say "I am simulavr. EOT", so I've spent
>    part of today groping around savannah, OpenAVR, etc., but no luck.)
>
>    That was after suspecting that I was missing some "info", because
>    the makefile for at least one of the tools demands makeinfo 4.2, and
>    the latest available via the debian apt-get mirror is 4.1. Hoofing it
>    off to a source mirror showed that Tex is a universe in itself, yet
>    there was nothing resembling the debian "texinfo" package. Maybe I'll
>    venture in there again, after a stiff drink.
>
>    But it's now clear that I need to climb the gdb curve, and then
>    resume with simulavr.
>
>    Your howto is rain on arid soil.

Just out of curiousity, how were the following documents lacking?

  
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avr-libc/doc/avr-libc-user-manual/install_tools.html

  http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/simulavr/doc/html/

Had the instructions in the first link been followed, neither one of
you would have had a problem.

If these docs are incorrect or incomplete, please tell us (or better
yet, send patches with improvements) so that we can make them better.

[Just noticed that the avarice notes in the first link are a bit
dated. I'll update those today.]

[BTW: we know that the order of the information in the avr-libc manual
sucks. This is a deficiency in the tool we use to generate the docs
and I'm looking into ways to fix this, but that will take some time
which I seem to have a shortage of.]

Ted Roth