GSOC POSIX Compliance: Stuck trying to build Newlib

[Matthew Joyce]

Hi Gentlemen,

Thanks very much for your quick replies!

I just tried both, but perhaps I'm misinterpreting your suggestions.
(Could you please see the attached commands / errors!)

Eshan,

I did see that link, but it wasn't clear to me what the solution was...Sorry!

Sincerely,

Matt

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 6:52 PM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt,
> Try running the command with autoconf version 2.69 that's shipped with RTEMS in the rtems bin
> That works as well.
>
> Also From a quick google search this is what I found : https://superuser.com/questions/617872/cant-locate-autom4te-channeldefs-pm-in-inc-when-it-definitely-is-there
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:12 PM Matthew Joyce <mfjoyce2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Dr. Joel and Eshan,
>>
>> I have a patch ready to send to Newlib for the sig function prototypes
>> and STR2SIG_MAX.
>>
>> But to do that, I think I need to have Newlib built, which I must
>> still be doing wrong. The error that I am getting is attached below.
>>
>> I’ve been trying to follow the steps here:
>> https://medium.com/my-gsoc-2019-journey/apply-newlib-patch-to-rtems-source-builder-6873b0fb31b8
>> and https://medium.com/my-gsoc-2019-journey/build-newlib-for-sparc-and-arm-architecture-6b3287d4c6f2
>>
>> I even had rebuilt everything from scratch to see if that would help,
>> but I still get the same error. Maybe I cloned the newlib source into
>> the wrong directory?
>>
>> I was hoping to get the patch off to Newlib for review as a first step
>> while I work on writing the actual methods. When you get a moment,
>> could you please advise? Thank you very much!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Matt
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