Tool Patches (new user)

[Neil Mayes]

Hi Joel,

> Ralf.. could you add some text to the appropriate places in 
> the getting started manual?  This seems to be a common 
> question these days.
Yep I also got caught by this, I thought it was an initiation to RTEMS
;-)

Neil

> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:01:46 -0500
> From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com>
> Subject: Re: Tool Patches (new user)
> To: Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org>
> Cc: "rtems-users at rtems.com" <rtems-users at rtems.com>,	Paul Dumais
> 	<paul at unstate.ca>
> Message-ID: <4846BC6A.80207 at oarcorp.com>
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> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:32 -0600, Paul Dumais wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to figure out which patches to apply to my tool 
> set (gcc, 
> >> binutils, newlib). I was following allong in the 4.8.0 
> documentation 
> >> pretty well until it mentioned patches that I should apply that no 
> >> longer exist on the server. Could anyone tell me which patches I 
> >> should be applying? In general, should I be applying all patches I 
> >> can find (chronologically)?
> >>     
> > No. Only the chronologically latest you intend to use, as 
> to be found 
> > in contrib/crossrpms/patches from the branch in CVS you 
> intend to use.
> >
> >   
> Ralf.. could you add some text to the appropriate places in 
> the getting started manual?  This seems to be a common 
> question these days.
> >>  Do I assume that the older patches mentioned in the documentation 
> >> have been merged into the newer patches? Need I be concerned with 
> >> gcc-core?
> >>     
> > Which OS are you using? We supply binaries and automated 
> updates for a 
> > variety of OSes.
> >   
> Yep. Ralf keeps the build machines working. :)
> > Ralf
> >
> >
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