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

[Hesham ALMatary]

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
That's possible.

> 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 ?
>
Doesn't 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 ?
>
The problem with cloning from github is that the URL should be
prefixed with "git://", and this is not the case for github repos. I
think download.py should be hacked to enable it.
Anyway, I'll submit a patch that downloads from specific commits.
> Chris



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Hesham