Does powerpc build/work in 4.5.0?

[Nick.SIMON at syntegra.com]

We are using 4.5.0 beta 3a - which was the last beta before the "official"
4.5.0 - on our proprietary mpc860 card, with a BSP derived from eth_comm
(but with no canbus).  Build environment is Red Hat 6.2 Intel.  It all
builds and works OK.  You most certainly do need a set of cross-building
tools but these are now available as RPMs for red hat + intel (& others),
which avoids a lot of the grief we had in the "old days".

I am most suprised 4.5.0 doesn't build for you, and I bet Joel is too!
Don't give up, but do post your error output.

Regards,


-- Nick Simon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Armistead [mailto:tarmiste at phx.mcd.mot.com]
> Sent: 18 April 2001 18:16
> To: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
> Subject: Does powerpc build/work in 4.5.0?
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm a newbie here so pardon if this is a dumb newbie question(s)...
> 
>    I'm interested in using 4.5.0 on powerpc boards.  At this 
> point, I'm
> not even able to get it to compile though.  One of the problems I've
> found is in lib/libbsp/powerpc/eth_comm/canbus/Makefile.am (and .in). 
> It has 'anclude' instead of 'include'.  And other 
> miscellaneous hiccups
> occur during the build as well.  
> 
>    The release notes indicated that the powerpc should at least build
> but I don't know how it possibly could with the above kind of thing in
> it.  Has anyone successfully built the powerpc portions of 
> 4.5.0 and if
> so, can you point me in the right direction?
> 
>    I've tried doing a native build on both LinuxPPC2000 and Debian 2.2
> PPC machines.  I've also tried doing a cross compile build on an intel
> redhat system.  Is there a specific build environment that is required
> for building powerpc?  (I was able to do a build for intel and run the
> resulting images using the same redhat system).
> 
>    I like RTEMs a lot; it has all the basic building blocks I need for
> my application and I'm willing to spend some time to get it working on
> powerpc but I don't know how much effort it will need or where even to
> begin.  Or whether it already works and I just am doing 
> something wrong.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Armistead
> 


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