Rtems 4.9: Error: Requires: libgmp.so.3()(64bit)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/16/2013 02:48 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Ralf your perspective is from that of a tool packager.

No. A product (here: RTEMS-4.9) which hasn't received bug fixes/back 
ports of despite there are known bugs, is dead.

Also, the packages, the rtems-4.9 toolchains are based on have been 
discontinued upstream long time ago, read: they are dead.


> It may no longer be of interest to you and not worth your trouble but it isn't dead. This is a case where building one's own tools from source is a viable option.
No.

It's one of the cases, where people who already are using it, need to 
fall back to a stand-alone long term inhouse support strategy.

> There may be future 4.9 releases.
This would seem unreasonable to me. Just announce it "discontinued and 
dead", be done with it, and concentrate on the new versions.

 > But the number of hosts with prebuilt tools is in decline.
You are missing the point: The world is moving on.

  The older toolchains gradually are becoming unbuildable on modern 
OSes. They fail to build, because newer tools reveal and abort upon bugs 
latented bugs, they fail to build because modern tools behave 
differently and they fail to build because OSes are changing in general.

Ralf