Tool chain for RTEMS 4.11

[Rempel, Cynthia]

>________________________________________
>From: Joel Sherrill [joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:44 PM
>To: Rempel, Cynthia
>Cc: Gedare Bloom; RTEMS
>Subject: Re: Tool chain for RTEMS 4.11
>
>FWIW
>
>  *   2012-12-20: newlib-2.0.0.tar.gz<ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-2.0.0.tar.gz> (15MB)
>  *   2011-12-19: newlib-1.20.0.tar.gz<ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-1.20.0.tar.gz> (14.5MB)
>  *   2010-12-16: newlib-1.19.0.tar.gz<ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-1.19.0.tar.gz> (14.3MB)
>
> newlib 1.20.0 was released almost 20 months ago.
> newlib 2.0.0 was released about 8 months ago.
>
>The diff in git is dated March 2013. Newlib has been
>very active. Everything from the RTEMS Community
>SHOULD have been submitted.
>
>FWIW I hacked on diff. Started at 70K. Being brutal...
>I threw away generated files, ChangeLog changes,
>license text changes, new ports (some RTEMS doesn't
>even support), and libgloss changes and got it down
>to 20.8K lines.
>
>If there is anything in this patch worth using, the author
>of the patch should speak up. Otherwise, I personally
>am writing if off as a cvs diff on an arbitrary date and
>ignoring it.
Wow! Thanks! I agree...