[fedora-electronic-lab] Piklab
Chitlesh GOORAH
chitlesh at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 3 18:15:18 UTC 2010
Hello Roy,
There is a question about interoperability between {gputils&gpsim} and
piklab. Since you are the upstream and Fedora maintainer, would you
answer this ?
Cheers,
Chitlesh
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Les wrote:
> Continuing to work on Piklab and Ktechlab, I have gone back to piklab
> for now and discovered the following:
> 1. When you configure the toolchains, piklab looks in the exec path
> for gpasm and gplib and apparently ignores the environment, because when
> gputils installs the library manager and assembler are loaded in
> the /usr/bin directory and found via path from the command line.
> 2. I added a symbolic link to the /usr/share/libexec/sdcc directory
> (the search path for the executables used by piklab) to both gpasm and
> gplib, they show up as:
> "gpsim" not recognized
> "gplib" not recognized
>
> But pressing the find button for gpasm shows a textbox with the
> following in it:
>
> Command for executable detection:
> /usr/libexec/sdcc/gpasm -v
> Version string:
>
> gpasm-0.13.7 beta
>
>
> Pressing the button for gplib shows:
> Command for executable detection:
> /usr/libexec/sdcc/gplib -v
> Version string:
>
> gplib-0.13.7 beta
>
>
> So thinking the beta deal is bad and probably causing the problem, I
> did "yum info *gputils*" and got:
>
> Installed Packages
> Name : gputils
> Arch : i686
> Version : 0.13.7
> Release : 2.fc12
> Size : 16 M
> Repo : installed
> >From repo : fedora
> Summary : Development utilities for Microchip (TM) PIC (TM)
> microcontrollers
> URL : http://gputils.sourceforge.net
> License : GPLv2+
> Description: This is a collection of development tools for Microchip
> (TM) PIC
> : (TM) microcontrollers.
> :
> : This is ALPHA software: there may be serious bugs in it,
> and it's
> : nowhere near complete. gputils currently only implements a
> subset
> : of the features available with Microchip's tools. See the
> : documentation for an up-to-date list of what gputils can
> do.
>
> At this point, I believe there is a disconnect between the Piklab
> software and the current state of gputils in the upstream. Does anyone
> have anything to add to this or any suggestions of where to go from
> here? Should I bugzilla this?
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
>
>
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