Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-19 Thread Anne van Rossum
Of course, this problem is not Ubuntu specific. It exist on every system where there is an existing AVR toolchain. If there are no hardcoded dependencies, I can rename the folders and file names in the following way: * dpkg-deb -x avr-binutils_2.15tinyos-4_i386.deb avr-binutils-tiny

Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-17 Thread Anne van Rossum
Thanks for your answers. So, an existing AVR toolchain seems to be a problem indeed. In that case, is there perhaps a temporal solution to my problem? Or are there many references to the current location? Or are there only some general configuration files that have to be changed? I can do it for on

Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-13 Thread Philip Levis
On Apr 13, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Tony Mancill wrote: Whoops - my apologies - I misunderstood the initial email. FWIW, a few thoughts... I gave this matter some thought when I first installed TinyOS and at the time was thinking that a chroot environment might be best in terms of long-term stabi

Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-13 Thread Tony Mancill
Whoops - my apologies - I misunderstood the initial email. FWIW, a few thoughts... I gave this matter some thought when I first installed TinyOS and at the time was thinking that a chroot environment might be best in terms of long-term stability and preventing conflicts. However, there is some s

Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-13 Thread leith
the package names already differentiate them from the other releases. unfortunately, the files themselves are located on the same path... -- processing /var/cache/apt/archives/avr-gcc-tinyos_3.4.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/avr-gcc.1.gz', which is also

Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-13 Thread Philip Levis
On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Tony Mancill wrote: I'd suggest changing the name of the tinyos-specific AVR toolchain packages. This will prevent the namespace collisions within the package manager. If the managers of the Stanford repository aren't interested in doing this, you can do it your

Re: [Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-13 Thread Tony Mancill
I'd suggest changing the name of the tinyos-specific AVR toolchain packages. This will prevent the namespace collisions within the package manager. If the managers of the Stanford repository aren't interested in doing this, you can do it yourself. I don't remember the exact syntax off the top of

[Tinyos-help] Ubuntu & TinyOS & Existing AVR libs

2007-04-13 Thread Anne van Rossum
Dear list members, This regards the recent Ubuntu package at the debian repository: deb http://tinyos.stanford.edu/tinyos/dists/ubuntu edgy main My current Ubuntu installation does already have binutils-avr, gcc-avr and avr-libc packages. (I already cross-compile for avr's and arm's microcontroll