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Hello world, I use a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 on my TiBook G4 AND my led are blinking!

First of all tnx at Massimo and all Arduino's people!

If you are a enthusiastic linux powerpc owner and you want open your mind you need read how much follows...

step 1: RXTX are build for X86 architecture (little endian) so it don't works!

• get librxtx source and recompile it!
  (http://www.rxtx.org/) or (apt-get source librxtx)
  
  
• remove in 'configure'  all '-source 1.3' (I use j2sdk 1.3)
  
  
• remove in 'src/Zystem.java' (I don't know: I'm not a Java Man. I drink orzo coffe! )
  
  else if (mode == J2SE_LOG_MODE)
                 {
                         java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("gnu.io").fine (s);
                         return (true);
                 }
  
  
  
• remove in 'src/RawImp.c' (it's a sola: it make a sys/io.h file not found!)
  
  #ifndef __APPLE__  /* dima */
  #include <sys/io.h>
  #endif /* dima */
  (see also http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2003/03/msg00457.html)
  
  
• compile'n'install! (./comfigure && make install) or (debian/rules binary && dpkg -i ../librxtx-java_2.1.7-1_powerpc.deb)
  
  
• rename old RXTXcomm.jar file in 'trunk/build/shared/lib' in
  RXTXcomm.jar-little-endian
  
  
• copy new BIG Endian RXTXcomm.jar (on debian /usr/share/java/RXTXcomm.jar) in to 'trunk/build/shared/lib'
  
  
• rename 'trunk/build/linux/dist/lib' in 'trunk/build/linux/dist/lib-little-endian'
  
  
• create a new 'trunk/build/linux/dist/lib'
  
  
• copy all new BIG Endian librxtx (on Debian 'cp /usr/lib/librxtx* trunk/build/linux/dist/lib')
  
  

step 2:  ./make.sh (!!!)  


If you have only jre 1.3 comment in 'trunk/app/syntax/JEditTextArea.java':

   // no more need for reflection, pde requires use of java 1.4
   /*
   if (System.getProperty("java.version").startsWith("1.4")) {
   try {
       Class kWheelHandler =
         Class.forName("processing.app.syntax.WheelHandler");
       java.lang.reflect.Constructor konstructor =
         kWheelHandler.getConstructor(new Class[] { getClass() });
       konstructor.newInstance(new Object[] { this });
     } catch (Exception e) {
       System.err.println(e);
     }
   }
   //new WheelHandler(this);
   addMouseWheelListener(new MouseWheelListener() {
       public void mouseWheelMoved(MouseWheelEvent e) {
         if (!scrollBarsInitialized) return;
         int amt = e.getWheelRotation();
         vertical.setValue(vertical.getValue() + amt * 3);
       }
     });
   */

That it's all!

ps: Sorry for my terrifull english!

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It took me a couple of nights of hacking to get RXTX compiled and installed successfully on a PPC PowerBook G4 running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. Ultimately, I was successful building from the rxtx-2.2pre2 source. Here's what I did.

Code:

unzip rxtx-2.2pre2.zip
cd rxtx-2.2pre2

Next, I edited the "configure" to remove "-source 1.3 -target 1.3" both times it appears.

The Zsystem.java file has moved from src/System.java to src/gnu/io/Zsystem.java. After finding its new home, I applied the edit suggested by fab, removing

Code:

else if (mode == J2SE_LOG_MODE)
               {
                       java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("gnu.io").fine (s);
                       return (true);
               }

Finally, in src/RawImp.c, the code I removed looks a bit different. I removed these lines:

Code:

#ifndef __APPLE__  /* dima */
#ifndef PPC
#include <sys/io.h>
#endif /* PPC */
#endif /* dima */

Now, when I first attempted to compile, it failed with this error

Code:

./src/I2CImp.c:135: error: 'UTS_RELEASE'  undeclared (first use in this function)

Some further research pointed to a workaround solution, as noted here: (sorry the board will not let me post an active line because I'm a n00b, you'll have to reconstruct yourself) mailman.qbang.org / pipermail / rxtx / 2009-February / 4371059.html

In my case, I used "uname -r" to get my release info, and edited /usr/include/linux/version.h to include the following final line

Code:

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.28-6-powerpc"

At this point, I was able to successfully make and install

Code:

make
sudo make install

And Arduino 0017 now runs without complaints.