[Tinyos-help] "nescc1 internal error : couldn't define builtin macros" on powerpc macosx

[Razvan Musaloiu-E.]

Hi!

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Razvan Musaloiu-E. wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, francesco foresti wrote:
>
>> Alle martedì 3 febbraio 2009, hai scritto:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, francesco foresti wrote:
>>>> Alle lunedì 2 febbraio 2009, hai scritto:
>>>>> Not sure, but nescc sometimes produces wierd errors like this if a
>>>>> configuration or module has a different name from the file it's in.  IE,
>>>>> if there was a file FooC.nc which contains 'configuration Foo' (not
>>>>> 'FooC'). Any chance this is the case?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Steve
>>>> 
>>>> I can't be 100% sure as i'm a tinyOS newbie, but i was trinyg to build
>>>> the Blink example application shipped with tinyos, which is hardly the
>>>> cause of the problem.
>>>> Anyway, the file BlinkC.nc has a module called BlinkC inside, while the
>>>> other (BlinkAppC.nc) says "configuration BlinkAppC".
>>> 
>>> Can you try the macports from here:
>>>  	http://hinrg.cs.jhu.edu/git/?p=ports.git
>>> 
>>> They follow the build procedure from deb packages. I tested them on
>>> MacOS X 10.5 (leopard) on both G4 and Intel and it compiles without errors
>>> the Blink for iris. You can grad the binaries for G4 from here:
>>>  	http://cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/ports/powerpc/
>>> 
>>> If it doesn't work please let me know. :-)
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Razvan ME
>> 
>> Hi, first of all thanks for your help.
>> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The problem seems to be that avr-gcc
>> fails with a simple "Bus error". Note that i have Tiger, and that i have 
>> used
>> another version of ports, because i have installed it already.
>
> The powerpc binaries were for Leopard. I'm building them for Tiger now.

You can find the binaries for Tiger here:
 	http://cs.jhu.edu/~razvanm/ports/powerpc/tiger/

The compilation went smooth without any errors. I tried also a 'make iris' 
in Blink and it didn't complain.

Let me know if it doesn't work.

--
Razvan ME

>> However, on the ibook there is also a debian installation, so if You know
>> where i could find powerpc deb packages for tinyos i could try with that. I
>> have already found and installed some Ubuntu gutsy packages (avr-gcc,
>> avr-binutils, avr-libc, avra, avrp), and they seem to work, and have compiled
>> nesc-1.3.0 so i should need only tinyos-related packages (tinyos-tools
>> particularly, because i had problems trying to compile them from tinyos-2.x
>> cvs sources).
>
> I don't have a powerpc linux around so there is not much help I give on that. 
> :-(
>
> --
> Razvan ME