Why do I need dmv177 BSP?

[Leon Pollak]

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 15:09, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:24, Leon Pollak wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 	I downloaded everything last and tried to compile RTEMS for my new BSP.
> > 	I deleted unnecessary (from my point of view) BSPs and left 3 I really
> > need - this speeds up bootstrap running.
> > 	Configuring passed OK, but "make" stopped and said that there is no
> > dmv177 BSP, which I really deleted.
> > 	Now, in configure.ac in ..libbsp/powerpc I see:
> >
> > AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([dmv177])
> >
> > 	I know almost nothing about automake/autoconf. I can restore this
> > directory back, but is it really forbidden to delete it?
>
> Which version of RTEMS are you using? rtems-4.6 should be able to handle
> this situation.
RTEMS Version ss-20030703


> All that should be required is to do is to run "bootstrap" after having
> removed or added a BSP's directory.
Yes, I also thought so, but...

>
> In your case,
> cd c/src/lib/libbsp/powerpc
> ../../../../../bootstrap
> is supposed to do what you intend
I did exactly this. You wrote this in one of e-mails in the list. I follwoed 
your instructions.


> [The responsible file is
> c/src/lib/libbsp/<CPU>/acinclude.m4 which is used by autoconf and
> aclocal when generating configure
> bootstrap is supposed to rebuild this acinclude.m4
> ]
Yes, I see it rebuild - its date and time show 'now'.

Thanks for the help.

leonp at plris dot com