ANN: New rtems-4.8 toolchain rpms available

e.stiebler emu at e-bbes.com
Sat Jun 16 19:06:28 UTC 2007


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
 > 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 :(

Is there a chance, that there is just something wrong with the rpm file ?
The installed stuff in /opt/rtmes ...  is not as big a the .rpm file.
(just had a quick look, probably I missed something)

Cheers



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