Re: [avr-gcc-list] A few basic doubts regarding installing AVR-GCC on Fedora 9

[Philip Heron]

Eshwaran Vijaya Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am a newbie to both AVR and AVR-GCC. I am trying to find out what
> are the lastest versions of GCC that I should be using:
>    The AVR Lib C user manual suggests that I use the latest version of
> GCC (4.3.2 is the latest ). The manual also suggests that I have to
> patch the latest version from
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/avr-gcc/files/patch-newdevices
> in order for everything to work properly. I then went to the
> AVRfreaks.net GCC forum where I see a list of patches where the
> patches specifically refer to GCC 4.2.2?
> Can some one clarify which version I am supposed to be using? I am
> using Fedora 9 with GCC 4.3.0 already installed.
> Thanks in advance.

Is there any reason why you can't use the packages already provided by 
Fedora?

# yum install avr-gcc avr-libc avrdude

It will save you a lot of trouble.

-Phil