Arduino: sketches uploaded from Gentoo crash, from OSX ok

[velociphile]

Hi,

I have a Gentoo-based desktop and Macbook. If I upload sketches to either of my two Freetronics Elevens (Arduino Uno clone) from the Macbook, all's well. If I upload the exact same sketch from the Gentoo desktop, the Eleven locks up (static D13, no comms with the Arduino IDE over USB.) However, the sketch uploaded from the Gentoo desktop works if I comment out almost everything, so the Linux box is compiling and uploading semi-successfully.

The compiled sketch complete (from the OSX machine) is about 10k, the biggest I've so far got to run from the Linux box is about 5k compiled, stripping out most of the functionality from the code. Obviously both are well away from the 32k limit. I've added/called freeMemory() from memoryFree.cpp posted at http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/AvailableMemory, and that reports ~1500 bytes free in the most complete sketch I could get to run when uploaded from the Linux box, so I don't think it's my sketch gobbling RAM.

It looks, to me, as if something in my Gentoo cross-avr toolchain that's using far more flash or RAM memory than it should (or either freeMemory() or the IDE reports), but I don't know really where to start looking. The gentoo toolchain was put together based on the guide at http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Gentoo, whilst I'm using the 0022 IDE bin from arduino.cc.

Since I can upload from the Macbook all is not lost, but it's a pain - it's my wife's computer really.

Has anyone come across this before?
Thanks,
Tom

PS: also posted on the Freetronics forum: http://forum.freetronics.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=101

[turtles]

Well since nobody has chimed in yet I cant resist. This looks really interesting.
Can I come over and check it out?

I looked at:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Linux/Gentoo
There is a note there:

[dol-sen]

I have an arduino and arduino compatible boards, but have not yet had time to set things up and play.

Looking at the link to fixed binaries, the fixed binaries are dated from a cvs snapshot:

[velociphile]

Both responders - thanks very much, sorry the delay in my reply. Not a lot of time for this sort of thing with a 2-year old wanting Youtube'd fire-engines every time I pick up a keyboard.

@dol-sen; I am now using rxtx-2.2_pre2, and have the same results. I don't now think it's the upload stage, I think it's before that, in the compilation/linking:

I've done a little digging, and (sorry, posted on both) result details are on the Freetronics forum (http://forum.freetronics.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=101&p=610#p610), so will precis here: the two systems seem to be producing very different (differently-sized) binaries, and the .hex file from the Gentoo box is 35,011 bytes - I assume it will be a problem flashing this into 32,256 bytes of space...

I'm now starting to go through the detailed compile output (produced by adding build.verbose=true to ~/.arduino/preferences.txt), comparing between the two platforms (and look again at my crossdev toolchain installation.)
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[carlocaponi]

And now, the definitive guide to arduino on gentoo:

http://www.carlocaponi.it/cgi-bin/blog/arduino

[LubosD]

Have you solved this? This is definitely a problem with the toolchain, because when I unpacked avr-gcc from Debian into my Gentoo, it started working flawlessly... Otherwise I had the exactly same problem as you.