GDB 7.8 adds Guile scripting support. This is now enabled by default as
well. Checking for guile also adds a pkg-config dependency.
It seems Python is explicitly excluded from cross building. I'm not
sure if Guile should also be excluded.
BOSSA is a flash programming utility for Atmel's SAM family of flash-based ARM microcontrollers. The motivation behind
BOSSA is to create a simple, easy-to-use, open source utility to replace Atmel's SAM-BA software. BOSSA is an acronym
for Basic Open Source SAM-BA Application to reflect that goal.
(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
* Remove unneeded --enable-<JLINK_BASED_DEBUGGER> configure flags.
configure auto selects support for them now (and they're all enabled).
* Not everything is auto-detected; I asked on the openocd mailing list
and they suggested a set of ./configure flags for a "distro build"
(add them).
* Remove --enable-ft2232_libftdi because configure says that it's
deprecated and we should use libftdi (which we are using when *not*
passing --enable-ft2232_libftdi (or --enable-legacy-ft2232_libftdi as
the option is now known as)).
* Add needed pkgconfig build input.
* Udev rules file has been renamed in source archive: openocd.rules =>
99-openocd.rules.
