Getting started with RTEMS and Ubuntu

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/05/2013 06:05 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> If you search this list you can find some similar queries. I can't
> speak to any specific versions of Ubuntu, but I recall that Ralf
> recently made some posts regarding some packages for I think it was
> Ubuntu Precise.
?!? I don't recall what you are referring to.

The problem with the Ubuntu packages is their sources are yet being 
automatically generated from the sources the rpms are generated from and 
building these packages taking a lot of time

> Since the Ubuntu RTEMS packages are not updated often,
The current Ubuntu/Debian package are in sync with the rpms, ATM.

> I would expect the LTS to be the better route to go.
Agreed, it is.

> If you are stuck
> with Quantal, you might want to investigate how to produce your own
> toolchain if the pre-packaged tools are not easy to get working.
Well, rebuilding, modifying and updating them from *.dsc should be not 
be too difficult for for Ubuntu/Debian-based developers.


> IIRC
> there were some problems folks had with missing dependencies with some
> Ubuntu precise packages.
No current one that I am aware about. It's possible, because *deb 
packaging has a substantially weaker automatic dep-tracking than rpm, 
but it would surprise me, because these packages have been built in 
chroots.

Ralf