ANN: New rtems-4.8 toolchain rpms available

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 18:04 -0600, e.stiebler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am pleased to be able to announce a major update to the rpms toolchain
> > repositories:
> > 
> > Available now are toolchain rpm for rtems-4.8 (experimental/unstable
> > RTEMS) for the following host plattforms:
> > - Fedora 7 i386 and x86_64
> > - Fedora 6 i386 and x86_64
> > - Fedora 5 i386 and x86_64
> > - CentOS-5/RHEL-5 i386 and x86_64
> > - CentOS-4/RHEL-4 i386 and x86_64
> > - SuSE 10.2 i586
> > - RHL i386
> > 
> > URL: ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/linux/4.8
> 
> Great Job !
> one question: did something go wrong with the m68 gcc ?
> it is around 8 times bigger than any other ...
> rtems-4.8-m68k-rtems4.8-gcc-c++-4.2.0-17.fc6.i386.rpm  	148993 KB 
> 6/3/2007  	1:56:00 PM

Let me answer this way: I am aware about this increase in size, but
don't know the cause (yet). 

m68k-gcc-4.1.x had shown to be problematic when building on x86_68,
which has caused us to decide to switch to gcc-4.2.0 for the m68k,
while most other toolchains still stay with gcc-4.1.x.

So, this increase in size probably is a side-effect of switching to
gcc-4.2.0, but I don't am not sure about the cause ... to be
investigated :(

Ralf