Installing From Source without Downloading Tools

Good evening all!

I am working on a Gentoo ebuild for the latest arduino distribution (1.6.4). I have it working, but as part of the installation routine it downloads avrdude and avr-gcc (and some other tools). I don't want to do this - I want to use the already installed tools on my system. Is there a simple way to indicate to ant that I don't want these additional tools? I recognise I can hack the app/build.xml, but this is not ideal, and would mean having to change it for every release.

I don't have much experience of java and ant, so I apologise if I am asking a stupid question!

Thanks!

Debian do what you want.

Debian cut Arduino IDE in two packages:

  • IDE
  • Core Wiring / Arduino

Perhaps Debian solution is applicable on Gentoo?