Add chapter for newib build in RTEMS Docs

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 2:09 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Vaibhav,
>
> It would be nice to provide such documentation, but I don't know that
> we have an existing location that would be an ideal fit. I think the
> topic is out of scope for User Manual. If you are motivated to write
> something though, you could prepare it first as a standalone guide.

If we have a name for the document like "Maintainers Guide" or something,
it could have a focus on procedures that only core developers would need.

+ bootstrapping newlib and building it independently
+ modifying gcc, running tests,
+ submitting Coverity runs
+ running Doxygen
+ ...

--joel

>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:48 AM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > As RTEMS is using "Newlib" as its C library, sometimes RTEMS
> > developers need to contribute codes directly to it. For example in
> > my GSoC Project, I have to port various headers to Newlib.
> >
> > This requires building Newlib on local system, making changes,
> > using right autoconf-tools version, creating patches, etc.
> >
> > In my case I referred to the blogs of Aditya. Hesham gave me few advice
> > during weekly meeting.
> >
> > I was hoping if we can provide a separate chapter for this in RTEMS Docs User Manual.
> > It will be helpful for new developers and also new GSoC and GCI students.
> >
> > Is it okay to proceed with ?
> >
> > Vaibhav Gupta
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