MVME5500 board support status?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:58 -0500, Joel Sherrill  wrote:
> Peter Dufault wrote:
> > to get the cvs head on Solaris, but at a very  low 
> > level since other things keep getting in the way.  The last thing  I got 
> > was "powerpc-rtems-gcc: new-exceptions/cpu_asm.o: No such file  or 
> > directory" building RTEMS even though I'm using:
> 
> If I had to guess on Solaris, I would say it is a shell or m4 
> deficiency. Solaris is notorious for having natively provided tools that 
> are not robust enough to make autotools happy.
What you say applies to the past, but doesn't apply anymore.

The autotools are supposed to be able to cope with Solaris, if not, this
would qualify as a bug.

> You could try installing GNU m4 and putting that directory 1st in your path.
True, but this applies to all platforms. Modern autoconf requires a very
recent gm4.

Ralf