On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Chris Liechti wrote: > Matthew Peters wrote: > > As for finding the manual, i now can find it on the site, how 'bout a > > its in the links on the left side and its also in the top bar. > and in the future also in the text... > > > non-pdf version for download though? I see there is only the pdf's in the > > download area, and a set of pages on the site, maybe a text version for > > those of us who don't a graphical interface on computers with no net three > > quarters of the time? > > lynx and the online manual ;-)
Note the last bit of that paragraph... no net, maybe make a packaged manual for local viewing? I prefer documentation in a large textfile, inline, most of the time myself. It allows easy viewing without any overhead. > > I only found out about that section of the manual when it was posted. Now > > looking at the manual pages, i notice the 'building mspgcc from source > > code' down right at the bottom, rather inconvenient place for someone just > > getting into the feild, > > on the other side, there are users that install binary packages. > win32 packages from out downloads and there are inofficial rpms at > cdk4msp.sf.net too (i havent tested those, dont ask me about details) Like me when i got too frustrated. But most users don't mind skipping past a 'compiling' section if they're using precompiled binaries, especially when it's all in a linked webpage. The only other thing that i feel should be changed is the doc.txt file in msp430-libc/doc/ which needs a little updating, the most confusing point is: Building C compiler. $ mkdir gcc $ cd gcc $ gunzip -c ../gcc-core-3.2.tar.gz | tar xf - $ cd .. $ cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/mspgcc login $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/mspgcc co gcc $ cd gcc/gcc-3.2 which doesn't work, and realy made the whole gcc-3.3/3.2 thing so much more frustrating. Might want to change gcc-core-3.0 (gcc-core-3.2) to be simply gcc-core-3.2 as well. The rest of that section seems to be okay though. I must also stop and thank people for their help, my development is now (finaly) all linux. Thanks Matthew
