Re: [PATCH 2/5] gnu: Add avr-gcc.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> writes:

>> Did you install the “avr-toolchain” package or just the “avr-gcc”?  I
>> had it working for me in the past after setting a couple of environment
>> variables (I think it was the “CROSS_*” family of variables), but I
>> don’t remember the details, unfortunately.
>
> I think this is a recurring problem for beginners that come from other
> distributions, maybe it's just a naming problem... This is non-obvious.

Indeed!

> Maybe adding a hint when people install $COMPILER, that tell them to
> look for $COMPILER-toolchain...

Or maybe we should hide these packages?  They could still be used in
manifests and in other packages, but they shouldn’t appear in
other interfaces such as the command line output.

~~ Ricardo