No pre built gcc-arm-none-eabi for saucy

I've bought a laptop to replace my desktop, and installed Ubuntu 13.10, Saucy Salamander. A down side of upgrading from 13.04 is that this PPA doesn't support saucy yet. No matter: I can build from source. Start by adding the PPA, which will create

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/terry_guo-gcc-arm-embedded-saucy.list

Edit this file: uncomment the deb-src entry, and replace saucy with raring. It'll look like this:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded/ubuntu raring main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded/ubuntu raring main

Now:

$ sudo apt-get install apt-src
$ sudo apt-src install gcc-arm-none-eabi

unfortunately, this won't quite work. You will need to downgrade texinfo before it will build.

$ sudo apt-get remove texinfo
$ wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/125194117/texinfo_4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu4_amd64.deb
$ dpgk -i texinfo_4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu4_amd64.deb

Now build:


$ cd gcc-arm-none-eabi-4-8-2013q4
$ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary




Getting coffee won't quite cut it. Go and have lunch...




$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i gcc-arm-none-eabi_4-8-2013q4-0raring9_amd64.deb

































































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