Target prefix on *.rel files leads to link step failure

[John Pickwick]

Sorry for the HTML mail format (this one should be ok) and thanks for the 
information.
In fact I added sparc-rtems4.8 to build rtems kernel because I wondered how 
the automake/autoconf could add the 4.8 suffix to find the tools.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralf Corsepius" <ralf.corsepius at rtems.org>
To: "John Pickwick" <john.pickwick at free.fr>
Cc: "RTEMS Users Mailing List" <rtems-users at rtems.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Target prefix on *.rel files leads to link step failure


>
> On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 12:22 +0200, John Pickwick wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> hmmm may be I missed some step ...
> Yes, you are sending HTML mails via using an MTA (free.fr) which is so
> badly maintained, it rejects valid emails as spam.
>
> Please switch to better email provider, learn not use HTML in emails on
> mailing lists or you better quit this list.
>
>> I have built my rtems 4.8 for sparc successfully using
>> target=sparc-rtems4.8 and then program-prefix=sparc-rtems4.8-
> The latter is your mistake. Don't use --program-prefix. The rtems
> makefiles are not designed to use it and are getting confused if you do
> so, because there is no need to do so.
>
>> (to find the tools).
> I don't understand this.
>
>>  So at the end, I get a leon2 bsp directory where *.rel files have a
>> "sparc-rtems4.8-" prefix and the link step does not pass for this
>> reason. The link command requires for example no-barrier.rel (so
>> without any sparc-rtems4.8 prefix). I removed manually the prefix and
>> it's ok.
>>
>> Where's my mistake in the build process ?
> If your toolchain had been build correctly, and if your PATH is set up
> correctly things will work out of the box, without --program-prefix
>
> Ralf
>
>
>
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