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

[Chris Johns]

On 4/05/2015 9:00 pm, Hesham ALMatary wrote:
> 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.

Ok.

>>> [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.

Yes I tend to agree.

> Anyway, I'll submit a patch that downloads from specific commits.

Thanks.

Chris