Re: [gentoo-user] What's the current state of Arduino on Gentoo?

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Matthew Marlowe
<matt@professionalsysadmin.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know (through simple discovery) that I can't simply "emerge arduino"
>> and expect things to work. I know, because they don't
>
> I built an arduino dev environment on gentoo not too long ago, and the
> only real complication was finding a the right combination of cross
> compiled libc/gcc/other libs that the arduino was happy with.  When
> not compiling for the arduino, I also have an arduino powered makerbot
> 3d printer which sometimes benefits from the standard arduino tools
> and which works perfectly with gentoo.
>
> What issues are you having?
>
> There is a very helpful arduino channel on freenode irc that could
> probably help you solve most issues.
>
> In any case, I have the following installed here:
>
> hyperion replicatorg # eix sys-devel/crossdev
> [I] sys-devel/crossdev
>      Available versions:  20100814 20101011 20110310 20110705 20110819
> ~20111011 20111018 20111118 20111221 ~20120214 ~20120227 ~20120228
> ~20120229 ~20120301 20120305 ~20120529 20120531 ~20120721 **99999999
>      Installed versions:  20120531(20:17:58 07/21/12)
> [I] cross-avr/avr-libc [1]
>      Available versions:  1.6.2 (~)1.6.4 (~)1.6.8 (~)1.7.0 (~)1.7.1
> [m]1.8.0 {crosscompile_opts_headers-only doc nls}
>      Installed versions:  1.7.1(20:01:13 03/07/12)(doc
> -crosscompile_opts_headers-only)
> [U] cross-avr/gcc [1]
>      Available versions:
>         (avr-2.95)      (*)2.95.3-r9
>         (2.95)  (~*)2.95.3-r10!s
>         (3.1)   (*)3.1.1-r2
>         (3.2)   (**)3.2.2!s (*)3.2.3-r4
>         (3.3)   (~)3.3.6-r1!s
>         (3.4)   3.4.6-r2!s
>         (4.0)   (~*)4.0.4!s
>         (4.1)   4.1.2!s
>         (4.2)   (~)4.2.4-r1!s
>         (4.3)   (~)4.3.3-r2!s 4.3.4!s (~)4.3.5!s 4.3.6-r1!s
>         (4.4)   (~)4.4.2!s (~)4.4.3-r3!s 4.4.4-r2!s 4.4.5!s 4.4.6-r1!s
> (~)4.4.7!s
>         (4.5)   (~)4.5.1-r1!s (~)4.5.2!s 4.5.3-r2!s (~)4.5.4!s
>         (4.6)   (~)4.6.0!s (~)4.6.1-r1!s (~)4.6.2!s [m](~)4.6.3!s
>         (4.7)   [m](**)4.7.0!s [m](**)4.7.1!s
>         {altivec bootstrap boundschecking build cxx d doc fixed-point
> fortran gcj go graphite gtk hardened ip28 ip32r10k java libssp lto
> mudflap multilib multislot n32 n64 nls nocxx nopie nossp nptl objc
> objc++ objc-gc openmp static test vanilla}
>      Installed versions:  4.5.3-r2(4.5)!s(20:21:55 03/07/12)(cxx doc
> multilib nls nptl openmp -altivec -bootstrap -build -fixed-point
> -fortran -gcj -graphite -gtk -hardened -libssp -lto -mudflap
> -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla)
> 4.6.2(4.6)!s(21:47:51 03/07/12)(cxx doc multilib nls nptl openmp
> -altivec -bootstrap -build -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -go -graphite
> -gtk -hardened -libssp -mudflap -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc
> -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla)
>

First:

 * Messages for package dev-embedded/arduino-1.0:

 * PLEASE NOTICE:
 * avr-g++ is missing, if you need a toolchain please see
 * http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Crossdev#AVR_Architecture


Second:

 $ eix sys-devel/crossdev
[I] sys-devel/crossdev
     Available versions:  20100814 20101011 20110310 20110705 20110819
~20111011 20111018 20111118 20111221 ~20120214 ~20120227 ~20120228
~20120229 ~20120301 20120305 ~20120529 20120531 ~20120721 **99999999
     Installed versions:  20120531(10:44:44 PM 08/21/2012)
     Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org/
     Description:         Gentoo Cross-toolchain generator

Third:
No cross-avr/avr-libc or cross-avr/gcc.

Sorry for the late and terse replies; just insanely busy lately.
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