Need help in building newlib

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:30 AM, Sebastian Huber
<sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> Hello Aditya Upadhyay,
>
> please don't send me e-mails directly. Use the devel at rtems.org mailing list
> instead.
>
>
> On 07/06/17 11:21, aditya upadhyay wrote:
>>
>> Hello Sebastian Huber,
>>
>> I am Aditya Upadhyay, selected in GSoC 2017, for RTEMS organization. My
>> project is POSIX Compliance. I have to work on newlib where i have to port
>> the code of some functions and have to add some header file from RTEMS. I
>> have implemented inttypes.h and its related methods in rtems.
>
>
> There is already an inttypes.h in Newlib. Please fix this if something is
> missing. Please don't write code on your own if there exists already an
> implementation in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD or bionic for this.
>
+1
Aditya, pllease audit what is already there.

>> Now i want to port it to the newlib. But i have no idea how to port it to
>> the newlib. Even i have tried to build newlib using this, described here :
>> https://sourceware.org/newlib/
>> but i am not able to build it correctly. Is there any changes to do while
>> executing this command-
>>
>>  ../newlib-2.2.0/configure --host=sun4 --target=m68k-aout
>>
>> Here target should be sparc-rtems4.12 and what should be the host ?
>> I need initial help. Once i will get the things clear, i will move ahead
>> to work.
>> Any help will be greatly appreciable and much helpful for me.
>
>
> You can build the tool chain with the RSB (I guess this was already a part
> of the GSoC preparation). It has reporting features to show you exactly the
> commands used to produce the tool chain. You can then build it on your own
> using these commands.
>
> Please use a Git clone of Newlib for this kind of work.
>
I gave instructions on how to do this in IRC last week. If you have
struggled with that approach, please ask for more direction. It is
straightforward to build a modified newlib using the RSB and local
patches as described in the RSB documentation.

> --
> Sebastian Huber, embedded brains GmbH
>
> Address : Dornierstr. 4, D-82178 Puchheim, Germany
> Phone   : +49 89 189 47 41-16
> Fax     : +49 89 189 47 41-09
> E-Mail  : sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
> PGP     : Public key available on request.
>
> Diese Nachricht ist keine geschäftliche Mitteilung im Sinne des EHUG.
>
> _______________________________________________
> devel mailing list
> devel at rtems.org
> http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel