rtems-bsp-builder and rtems6 vs rtems7

[Chris Johns]

On 27/10/20 10:55 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 6:14 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org
> <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
>     On 27/10/20 2:49 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > I tried one of my build sweeps on rtems7 and there were some issues. First the
>     > arm gcc didn't build but that is likely transient.  The rtems-bsp-builder
>     had a
>     > complete set of failures -- all 1696 because the target used was rtems6.
>     >
>     > https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/build/2020-October/020269.html
>     >
>     > /home/joel/rtems-cron-7/rtems/configure --target=arm-\
>     >       rtems6 --enable-rtemsbsp=beagleboardxm --prefix=/home/joel/rtems-\
>     >       cron-7/tools/7/bsps --enable-rtems-debug --enable-networking\
>     >       --disable-smp
>     >
>     > rtems-bsp-builder does not take target or version as an argument so it must be
>     > generated internally. Is there a way to make it build for 7 instead of
>     > defaulting to 6?
>     >
>     > Also there is no way from the subject line in the build list archives to
>     tell 5
>     > v 6 v 7.
> 
>     There is no option to set an RTEMS version. I could be added but I am not sure
>     how much work it would be.
> 
> I'll try to remember to file a ticket some don't forget about it. I assume 7 is
> just leading edge tools and until we get closer to a 6 release branch we will
> bump 6 tools periodically. So testing 7 by building all bsps is desirable but
> not pressing at the moment.

Thank you. I have added it to my list. There is the building with waf.

Chris