Add chapter for newib build in RTEMS Docs

[Vaibhav Gupta]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:12 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
Standalone guide sounds good because I am also confused which manual will
be the ideal fit.

>
> 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
> + ...
>
> Yes, for now I have not much content as other docs are having. But the
content
I proposed are important ones.
It will save enough time of future developers.
And I am sure that content will be generated with development of newlib,
other third party libraries, and RTEMS.

- Vaibhav

> --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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