RTEMS SS-20030128 available

[Joel Sherrill]

Jack Cawkwell wrote:
> 
> Well I do feel guilty that I am not contributing by testing out the CD
> image.
> My only excuse can be that it took possibly 9 hours to download, over
> several
> different sessions at different places. And also I have not yet been able
> to
> build the whole system (from any source) successfully yet; although I am
> familar
> with Unix/Linux and regularly reconfigure my Linux kernel for various
> purposes.
> 
> The last CD did not build and I think that some tool versions were wrong.
> I cleared out all the old versions using commands like rpm -q -a | grep
> rtems,
> and then removing anything detected; I am pretty sure I removed everything.

If you always use the RPMs, this will work:

rpm -e `rpm -qg rtems `

and just to be sure:

rm -rf /opt/rtems/*

> So any feed back from some one who can confirm that the latest CD is OK
> will be very welcome,
> 
> Thanks, Jack
> 
> Don.Pogoda at wpafb.af.mil writes:
> >
> >
> >With all these forks, spoons, knives, patches, snapshots, photos,
> >branches, trees, limbs, etc, etc, it sure would be nice if someone would
> >come up with an app note which, at the very least, provides references on
> >how to understand all these concepts.  Ideally, it would describe how to
> >maintain your development environment in detail.  Especially considering
> >the various downloadable versions of 4.5 on the web site (i.e. the actual
> >4.5.0 link, the CD-Working version, etc, etc).
> >
> >While the RTEMS documentation is pretty clear on the installation process
> >from a given distribution (except where you are given untar instructions
> >to uncompress a .bz2 file :) ), I am certainly lost on how all this other
> >stuff.  Maybe a case of trying to learn RTEMS at the same time as trying
> >to learn Linux!
> >
> >For what it is worth .......
> >
> >Don
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com]
> >Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:04 AM
> >To: Jack Cawkwell
> >Cc: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
> >Subject: Re: RTEMS SS-20030128 available
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Jack Cawkwell wrote:
> >>
> >> Has the cd image been tested? I mean, has anyone taken the cd image
> >> and on a clean machine, loaded the rpms' and source and successfully
> >> built RTEMS?
> >
> >That hasn't been done by OAR yet.  At this point around here, it would
> >take doing a fresh install on a machine.  Even my laptop is polluted
> >in this sense.
> >
> >Any feedback on this before we get to it would be definitely valuable.
> >
> >--joel
> >
> >> Cheers, Jack
> >>
> >> joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com writes:
> >> >
> >> >A new RTEMS snapshot is available.  I hope this is the last snapshot
> >> >before a release branch is forked.  It is available in
> >> >
> >> >ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com:/pub/rtems/cd-working
> >> >ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com:/pub/rtems/snapshots/rtems/current
> >> >
> >> >A number of nits fixed, loopback network test added to samples,
> >> >and BSD sysctl() interface supported for the TCP/IP stack.  This
> >> >allows the standard SNMP package to work with RTEMS.  The BSP Howto
> >> >has been updated to reflect use of automake and the Getting Started
> >> >has the versions updated.
> >> >
> >> >A few of the Ada binding tests link and run now but the Makefiles
> >> >need some magic before they all will.
> >> >
> >> >Feedback greatly appreciated.  I am mentally setting a timer and
> >> >if there are no bad reports, when it goes off the release branch
> >> >is forked.
> >> >
> >> >FWIW I am not merging the API change to rtems_io_register_name.
> >> >It will be a post release item.
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
> >> >joel at OARcorp.com                 On-Line Applications Research
> >> >Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
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> >> >
> >