[PATCH] [RSB] Add support for building Epiphany tools

[Chris Johns]

On 4/05/2015 12:10 am, Hesham ALMatary wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at gwu.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Hesham ALMatary
>> <heshamelmatary at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>> On 1/05/2015 7:31 am, Hesham ALMatary wrote:
>>>>> +%source set binutils https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb/archive/epiphany-binutils-2.23-software-cache.zip
>>>>> +%source set gcc https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-gcc/archive/epiphany-gcc-4.9.zip
>>>>> +%source set gdb https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb/archive/epiphany-gdb-7.8.zip
>>>>
>>>> Are these versions set or are they moving as the github repo moves ?
>>>>
>>> They are usually changing and modified, fixing bugs, add features,
>>> etc. My pull requests got merged to these branches. That's why I think
>>> hashes won't be practical.
>>>
>> Would it be better to pull the git repo itself to a certain commit
>> then?

>From a commit id, sure. If you can pull a zip file from a specific
commit id that would be better.

The reason we lock this down is to not changing anything on the user
until it is known to be stable. There are ways using user macros to
override the default and pick up the master branch for your testing so
you can test using the master branch and users pick up the last know
stable version. Contact me and I can explain if this is what you want.

> For building tools we aim to have a reliable, reproducible tool
>> set. Dealing with "moving targets" makes it harder to support.
>>
> That's possible. The problem is that the current RSB doesn't support
> cloning from GitHub URLs like [1] or even [2]. [1] produce "malforned
> URL (no protocol prefix)", and [2] assumes that it's a .tar file, and
> doesn't even clone it.
> 
> [1] git at github.com:adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb.git

Does git://git@github.com/adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb.git work ?

> [2] https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-binutils-gdb.git

The doco in this section https://docs.rtems.org/rsb/#_http_https_and_ftp
shows how to get a git version. Does this still work ?

Chris