Building a BSP for rtems7

[Joel Sherrill]

Grrr.. the patch I posted is necessary but not sufficient. Attached is
the config file in case something in it is wrong. I think somewhere
else has a 6. :(

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# project  configured on Fri Nov 12 09:05:51 2021 by
# waf 2.0.20 (abi 20, python 20705f0 on linux2)
# using ./waf configure --rtems-tools=/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7
--rtems-bsps=sparc/leon3 --out=b-leon3
--prefix=/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7/bsp-install
--rtems-config=config-sparc-leon3.ini
#
----------------------------------------
Setting top to
/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/rtems
----------------------------------------
Setting out to
/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/rtems/b-leon3
----------------------------------------
Configure board support package (BSP)
sparc/leon3
----------------------------------------
Checking for program 'sparc-rtems6-gcc'
not found
find program=['sparc-rtems6-gcc']
paths=['/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7/bin',
'/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7',
'/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7/bsp-install/bin',
'/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7/bin', '/usr/local/bin', '/usr/bin',
'/usr/local/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/home/joel/.local/bin',
'/home/joel/bin'] var='SPARC_RTEMS6_GCC' -> None
from /home/joel/rtems-cron-7/rtems: Could not find the program
['sparc-rtems6-gcc']

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I've grep'ed and poked around but can't find the magic bit. :(

--joel

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:01 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:46 AM Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/11/2021 22:31, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:56 PM Sebastian Huber
> > > <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>  wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 11/11/2021 17:47, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > >>> Hi
> > >>>
> > >>> I was looking at the logs for building the rtems7 tools and it seems
> > >>> that I am missing something on the waf configure for rtems to build
> > >>> for rtems7. Assuming it is possible. My command was:
> > >>>
> > >>> ./waf configure --rtems-tools=/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7
> > >>> --rtems-bsps=sparc/leon3 --out=b-leon3
> > >>> --prefix=/home/joel/rtems-cron-7/tools/7/bsp-install
> > >>> --rtems-config=config-sparc-leon3.ini
> > >>>
> > >>> And it still tried to find sparc-rtems6-gcc.  Is there an argument i am mising?
> > >> Try to add
> > >>
> > >> __RTEMS_MAJOR__ = 7
> > >>
> > >> to the config.ini.
> > > That isn't in the set dumped by bsp_defaults and using it didn't
> > > appear to change anything.
> >
> > Ok, I seem to remember a discussion about this some time ago. Options with
> >
> > default: null
> >
> > cannot be changed by the user. I think for the RTEMS version the reason
> > was that users should be forced to use the right tool chain.
> >
> > We could change the RTEMS version options to
> >
> > default: 6
> >
> > for example.
> >
> > At the moment you have to patch spec/build/cpukit/optvermaj.yml to build
> > with a tool chain of the wrong version.
>
> It took a bit more than that but a patch is coming. This should let my build
> sweep do a bit more with rtems 7. I am still unsure if rtems-bsp-builder will
> work with 7. That's a question for Chris.
>
> --joel
>
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