[PATCH v2] x86_64/gcc: Add gcc patch for LIB_SPEC (rtems.h in gcc)

[Amaan Cheval]

Thanks a ton! I'll likely make the corresponding RSB patch to backport
this to GCC 7.3 tomorrow for Chris to review :)

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Amaan Cheval <amaan.cheval at gmail.com>
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>>> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 7:54 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>>> > I am now confused. Do I need to get a patch into GCC?
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>>> Hey!
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>>> Sorry about the confusion. Technically the answer is yes, but it's
>>> unrelated to _this_ patch.
>>>
>>> To clear things up:
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>>> - [DONE] You already committed a previous patch for GCC for -qrtems,
>>> -qnolinkcmds, etc.
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>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=602fa1e9d3ea5e87d4d6e17e3e91fc2647e42da3
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>>> - [DONE] This email thread backports the above patch to
>>> rtems-source-builder so that we can use it in GCC 7.3. Chris accepted
>>> this
>>> patch into rtems-source-builder here
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>>> https://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/commit/?id=defa958301215995b0fa41d8e65cb23c9a28a847
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>>> - [PENDING - Joel] I recently made a GCC patch to have GCC build crti.o
>>> and
>>> crtn.o for the x86-64 RTEMS tools, so we can have symbols like "_fini"
>>> added automatically through our bsp_specs file, the way we do for other
>>> architectures. As Sebastian mentioned in an email to you and me, I
>>> believe
>>> he'd prefer if you reviewed the patch here:
>>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-05/msg00126.html
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>>> - [PENDING - Amaan, and later Chris] Once the crti.o patch above is
>>> merged
>>> into GCC, I'll make a corresponding backport patch to
>>> rtems-source-builder
>>> to make that available to GCC 7.3 as well, and then Chris can review +
>>> merge that in after.
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>> I meant to deal with this today.
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>> I am leaving myself a note to get this merged next week. Ping me in the
>> middle
>> of next week if you haven't heard action.
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> This is now committed on the gcc master.
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> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2018-05/msg00226.html
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> Hopefully that helps clean up the RSB.
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>>> Hope that clears things up!
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>> It does.
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>>> > On Thu, May 3, 2018, 8:38 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
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>>> >> On 07/04/2018 08:35, Amaan Cheval wrote:
>>> >> > Adds -qnolinkcmds, -qrtems, and defaults to pass to linker, for
>>> >> > gcc targeting x86_64.
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>>> >> Pushed, thank you.
>>>
>>> >> Chris
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