SV: RTEMS 4.6.4 fails on Cygwin

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 13:25 +1100, Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 16:53 -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > 
> >>Ole Hansen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello Joe
> >>>
> >>>Are there any preferences of version of GCC + tools to use for building crossgcc  ??
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>
> >>In general, you should use the same version native to build a cross. 
> > 
> > 
> > Nonsense - Joel, what makes you say this?
> > 
> > To build GCC/c and GCC/c++ cross, all you need is a sufficiently
> > ANSI-compliant C-compiler and a sufficiently POSIX compliant run-time
> > environment.
> 
> I found that I needed to first build gcc-3.3.5 and use them to build the 
> coross tools - that is, on my Linux system anyway. GCC 4.0 would not 
> build the RTEMS tools.
>
> Furthermore, I was unable to make gcc-3.2.3 on my linux machine, which 
> is why I used gcc-3.3.5

Both these issues have the same origin: GCC-3.2.x contains coding bugs
which prevents it to build with recent GCC's.
Or to put it conversely: GCC-3.2.x isn't compliant to more recent GCC's
understanding/interpretation of ANSI-C.

I.e. you were not facing any GCC-version related issues (Like you would
be facing if trying to build GCC/Ada), you were facing actual bugs in an
outdated package, which has been discontinued for quite a while.

Ralf