[Tinyos-help] problem compiling Blink to telosb platform

[Ákos Maróy]

Aurélien Francillon wrote:
> Any chance to have tinyos devs pushing this patch to upstream binutils ? 
> that would be very convenient for everybody ...
> there have been a discussion on binutils-dev recently 

that would be nice. the patch is real small:

--- binutils-2.16/gas/config/tc-msp430.h        2004-08-25
14:54:09.000000000 +0200
+++ binutils-2.16.patched/gas/config/tc-msp430.h        2007-06-01
12:23:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
      example, a value of 2 might print `1234 5678' where a value of 1
      would print `12 34 56 78'.  The default value is 4.  */

-#define LEX_DOLLAR 0
+#undef LEX_DOLLAR
 /* MSP430 port does not use `$' as a logical line separator */

 #define TC_IMPLICIT_LCOMM_ALIGNMENT(SIZE, P2VAR) (P2VAR) = 0



> For gentoo users the patch is included in default gentoo binutils for msp430 
> version "cross-msp430/binutils-2.16.1-r3", it's provided by gentoo crossdev, 
> (see http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Cross_Compile)

I tried to use crossdev with the msp430 target, but it didn't work for
me - as it's not a 'real' target. can you provide steps on how to go
about this?

> I would recommend using my gentoo overlay here :
> https://naurel.org/svn/tinyos-2-overlay
> It includes a modified crossdev  which should install a proper msp430-gcc and 
> msp430-libc, it also includes ebuilds for tinyos-1.x and 2.x ...

I'm looking at your mspgcc e-build, and I'm not finding the above patch
for when it build binutils..


Akos