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-#
-# RIOT Dockerfile
-#
-# the resulting image will contain everything needed to build RIOT.
-#
-# Setup: (only needed once per Dockerfile change)
-# 1. install docker, add yourself to docker group, enable docker, relogin
-# 2. # docker build -t riotbuild .
-#
-# Usage:
-# 3. cd to riot root
-# 4. # docker run -i -t -u $UID -v $(pwd):/data/riotbuild riotbuild ./dist/tools/compile_test/compile_test.py
-#
-# If you want to use a persistent ccache, map a directory to '/data/ccache'
-# and set CCACHE=ccache:
-#
-# 4. # docker run -i -t -u $UID -v $(pwd):/data/riotbuild -v /tmp/riot_ccache:/data/ccache \
-#           -e CCACHE=ccache -e RIOT_VERSION_OVERRIDE=buildtest \
-#            riotbuild ./dist/tools/compile_test/compile_test.py
-#
-
-FROM ubuntu
-
-MAINTAINER Kaspar Schleiser <kaspar@schleiser.de>
-
-ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
-
-RUN echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/terry.guo/gcc-arm-embedded/ubuntu trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gcc-arm-embedded.list
-RUN apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key FE324A81C208C89497EFC6246D1D8367A3421AFB
-
-RUN apt-get update
-RUN apt-get -y dist-upgrade
-
-RUN apt-get -y install build-essential \
- git \
- gcc-multilib \
- gcc-arm-none-eabi \
- gcc-msp430 \
- pcregrep libpcre3 \
- qemu-system-x86 python3 \
- g++-multilib \
- gcc-avr binutils-avr avr-libc \
- subversion curl wget python p7zip unzip parallel
-
-RUN wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/206632429/ccache_3.2.2-2_amd64.deb \
-        -O /tmp/ccache_3.2.2-2_amd64.deb \
-        && dpkg -i /tmp/ccache_3.2.2-2_amd64.deb
-
-RUN mkdir -m 777 -p /data/ccache
-ENV CCACHE_DIR /data/ccache
-
-RUN mkdir -p /data/riotbuild
-WORKDIR /data/riotbuild