[Tinyos-1.2wg] Re: Tools for 1.2

[David Gay]

> --- make ---
> I've had corroborated reports that having two versions of make on the
> same system (say, one in /usr/bin and one /usr/local/bin) breaks the
> build system.  It's unclear why, but it appears to be an issue with
> make, specifically, and not the build scripts.  At a minimum, *not*
> overwriting the system make should be *thoroughly* tested before
> release.  (I suspect it won't work.)

Oops. We're going to have to figure out what our make story is, that's
for sure...

> --- mspgcc-pybsl ---
> It should work on Linux just fine, though the instructions don't
> indicate how ... because it's so damn easy :).  Windows must build an
> exe/binary because serial port access isn't supported in the Cygwin
> python.  Linux python serial port access is A-OK, so the bsl.py script
> runs directly.  We've found it sufficient to just symlink bsl.py to
> /opt/msp430/bin/msp430-bsl.

Two issues:
- the "serial" package has to be somewhere python can find it (it
seems to like: "current directory", "executable's directory", and
presumably a few other places - our installation stuff has to make
sure this is set up right)
- your "find a mote" stuff (motelist) doesn't work correctly on Linux
(e.g., with two hubs)

> --- Linux kernel ---
> We may want to recommend Linux users use 2.4.x series kernel because
> USB support in 2.6.x is f'ed up -- we get intermittent strange
> behavior on USB otherwise.  The other options is to work with the
> Linux kernel developers and stabilize USB support (hahaha).

FC3 seems to work (except for that motelist issue).

David