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manual upgrade of gcc binutils avrlibc on ubuntu 8.04LTS

trying to use:

Freeduino V1.16, with ATMEGA328

Color LCD & Joystick shield for Arduino (nokia 6610)

arduino IDE v17 .. should work on v11

ubuntu 8.04LTS

tried to verify/compile/ a test of the nokia lcd sheild for a freedurino 328 and got the error:

‘atmega328p’ supported for assembler only

doing a google search turned up that it might be a gcc issue needing to be v4.2.3 or up

avr-gcc --version

ubuntu 8.04 is down rev from what we need, so we install a newer version of gcc

sudo su -

need some pre req first:

apt-get install libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev

now the newer gcc:

cd /usr/src/

mkdir gcc

cd gcc

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.3.3/gcc-4.3.3.tar.gz

tar xjf gcc-4.3.3.tar.gz

cd gcc-4.3.3

mkdir obj

cd obj

../configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-nls --disable-libssp

make

make install

exit out of su

avr-gcc --version

should now give us the newer gcc version

for an updated binutils

mkdir /usr/src/binutils

cd /usr/src/binutils

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.20.tar.gz

tar xzvf binutils-2.20.tar.gz

cd binutils-2.20

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=avr

make

make install

check the install went well

avr-as --version

get avr-libc: http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/

mkdir /usr/src/avr-libc

cd /usr/src/avr-libc

wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/avr-libc/avr-libc-1.6.7.tar.bz2

tar xvjf avr-libc-1.6.7.tar.bz2

cd avr-libc-1.6.7

./configure --host=avr --prefix=/usr/local

make

make install

check by re verify/compile/ nokia test program with board chosen

arduion mega328

... life is good

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recently patched my system using apt-get and it replaced the version of gcc that is needed by the arduino ide

avr-gcc --version

cd /usr/src/avr-gcc/gcc-4.3.3/obj

../configure --prefix=/usr/local --target=avr --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-nls --disable-libssp

make

make install

avr-gcc --version

still reporting old version, but it's the new version and arduino ide works again.

note that binutils is now showing down rev but seems to work ok.