arm-rtems-gcc...no

[Sudheesh J - Atinav Incorporated]

Sorry, I was leading him to chaos with my carelessness. I was unaware about
the snapshot Howard was using. I just wanted to tell him that he may use the
patechd tools (correct versions of course) available as RPMS.
regards,
Sudheesh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Sherrill" <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>
To: "Sudheesh J" <sudheesh at ATINAV.COM>
Cc: "howard" <howard at antek.com.tw>; <rtems-users at OARcorp.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: arm-rtems-gcc...no


>
>
> > Sorry if I interpret you incorrectly. You said mere gcc-3.2.targ.gz. And
the error messages also indicate the same. You have to apply the RTEMS
patch. Or you
> > have to export the cross compiler path to the PATH environment variable.
The other tools also should be patched. It says arm-rtems-gcc not found..
not gcc.
> > Refer the fileTOOLVERSIONS in the same ftp directory as the source
archive.  Then compile them for the target processor(arm).
>
> > Or you may use the patched
> > tools available at
ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com/pub/rtems/releases/4.5.0/c_tools
>
>
> Dead on the money until here.  Always try to use the tool versions and
> patches that go with a particular RTEMS version.  In particular,
> gcc and newlib are co-dependent with RTEMS since they must agree
> on header files, cpp predefines, threading support, etc.
>
> It is possible that a particular gcc/newlib version will work with
> a range of RTEMS versions but it is better to stick with the recommended
> versions.  For example after 4.5, a large .h file reorg was performed
> which resulted in the 4.5.0 tools not being useable with snapshots
> at a certain point.  More recently, we merged some BSD-isms into
> newlib to clean up some more and even more recently, the signal.h
> file changed in newlib and RTEMS has to stay in sync with that.
>
> --
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