mac OS Install commands - old path and missing sudo

[gramss]

hi,

I did your tutorial for macOS on 10.12.3 from here https://gnuarmeclipse.github.io/toolchain/install/#macos

the tar command and chmod both needs a sudo in front. Maybe on older versions the shell might kept sudo rights? And the test command is linking to the old version ->2014 in the path name.

Thanks for the great write up! :) 👍

[ilg-ul]

can you be more specific on the folder used and the exact commands? writing to the ${HOME}/opt folder should not require sudo.

[gramss]

the old command is

${HOME}/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2014q1/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc --version
                              ^^^^^^^^^^

should be:

${HOME}/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc --version
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

it was maybe only touched at the first init of this page?

I did the tar without sudo in first place but it was giving me an error for every file I wanted to extract.
So I killed the process and looked int the opt folder which was empty. With sudo everything worked.

one error line out of thousands:

gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/html/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax.html: Failed to create dir 'gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update'Can't create 'gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/html/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax.html'

[gramss]

sorry the spaces in front of my ^^^^ were optimized ....
It's about the release name of the packages

[ilg-ul]

(for formatting, you should use code sections; I fixed your post)

as for the page, right, the instructions were wrong, the first mkdir should not use sudo at all; I updated the page, please check if it is ok now, preferably by renaming the toolchain folder and re-issuing the commands again.