ANN: toolchains for redhat-el4-rtems4.9 to be discontinued

[Joel Sherrill]

Kate Feng wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> RHEL4 rsp. CentOS4 does not provide sufficient recent tools (here gm4)
>> to be able to use for future rtems development.
>>
>> I requested an RFE for RH to upgrade gm4
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443958
>> but so far, no reaction from RH.
>>
>> Shouldn't they upgrade in near future, there are 3 potential escapes:
>>
>> a) RTEMS to ship a package to replace RH's gm4
>> This would render the purpose of RHEL void and would upset many
>> sysadmins be we would replay a vendor supplied packages
>>
>> b) RTEMS to ship a customized gm4 to be installed into /opt/rtems-4.9,
>> in parallel to the original gm4.
>>
>> This is tedious packaging-wise and error-prone to use.
>> Something I'd rather avoid.
>>
>> c) Us to abandon support for RHEL4
>>
>>     
> Does this apply to the RHEL3 and RHEL5 ?
>
>   
RHEL3 does not have tools for RTEMS 4.9.  Without looking
I can guarantee that it ships with a gm4 <= the one with
RHEL4 so would be in the same boat if it were still supported.

Since Ralf is likely asleep now, I will guess that since he
didn't mention RHEL5, it has a sufficiently new gm4.
> Kate
>   
>> ATM, I am clearly leaning towards c). It's the least intrusive and least
>> expensive approach.
>>
>> Please speak up know, should you be using or planning to use RHEL4 or
>> CentOS for rtems4.9 development. Otherwise support (rpms) for
>> RHEL4/CentOS may vanish any time soon.
>>     
If support for RHEL4 is important to some project, they
need to speak up.  Since it is falling into the "special
effort to support" category, you need to either upgrade
or arrange to fund Ralf to keep it supported.
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
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