powerpc-rtems thought

[joel at oarcorp.com]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Brendan Simon wrote:

> My previous mail had problems with egcs linking.  I just had a thought.
> Maybe it's becuase I tried to use newlib-1.8.1 without any patches.
> I'll try newlib-1.8.0 with the rtems patches.  Hopefully this will work.

No newlib version has correctly supported RTEMS without patches.

And there is not a 1.8.1 patch at this time.

> Is there a way of only recompiling newlib without having to recompile
> the whole tool chain from scratch ?

Yes.

Just put the powerpc-rtems tools in your path and configure and make
newlib by itself.  It will save a lot of time.

--joel