David Feldman wrote: > I'm looking for mspgcc toolchain to run on a (ubuntu) linux machine.
Mat Barnes wrote: > Or build from source, it does not take very long on a reasonably > recent machine. There are straightforward instructions in the wiki to > build the toolchain and utilities. Whilst this is an option, it's not something that I enjoy recommending to a beginner. There are a number of patches floating around for mspgcc, which add support for various devices and (I guess) fix bugs. This is confusing for beginners (it's still confusing for me, and I'm the Fedora mspgcc package maintainer!). For beginners, prebuilt packages are really always going to be a better option, as it is likely that the packager has some idea of which patches to apply. It's also better when measuring man-hours. The packager has already built the thing, so why bother building it again yourself? Does anyone know of any packages for Ubuntu that we can recommend? A guy commented on my blog [1] about having some packages for Debian -- I'm trying to contact him to see where he got with that. I guess these would be compatible with Ubuntu, but then again I'm not a Debian/Ubuntu user ;-) Cheers, Rob [1] http://xgoat.com/wp/2009/02/05/my-first-package-shipping-through-fedora/#comment-1218
