toolchain versions (was Re: compile error in dwmac-desc-enh.c)

[Chris Johns]

On 7/08/2014 7:51 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> On 8/6/2014 4:45 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>> On 08/06/2014 04:37 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>> On 8/6/2014 3:06 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>>>> On 08/06/2014 03:39 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> You really want to use the RTEMS Source Builder (RSB). It is a tool
>>>>> written in Python
>>>> This would be helpful if I has only building for myself, however I'm
>>>> working to update my Debian packaging for 4.11.  This is fairly
>>>> straightforward for when I can just get the source and patch it myself.
>>>>   I'm not sure about trying to incorporate another layer of build system.
>>>>
>>>> Where are the latest patches being kept?
>>> We are trying to have better source code management of the patches and
>>> track them
>>> in a distribution format independent manner.  The patches are kept at:
>>>
>>> http://git.rtems.org/rtems-tools in the tools subdirectory.
>>>

The RSB is also referencing patches from various project's patchworks 
sites directly avoiding the overhead of adding the patch to rtems-tools.

>>> The RSB has the preferred set of patches for each target in a .bset file
>>> for each target
>>> and RTEMS branch. It also describes where to fetch patches. It should be
>>> able to
>>> build binaries on any host.
>> With a little decoding I think I've identified gcc 4.8.2 w/ newlib 2.1.0
>> as the latest based on released versions.  More recent seems to pull in
>> newlib from CVS (which I don't care to package)

Yes newlib is from CVS at a specific date. This is the unfortunate thing 
when tracking the development branch. If we are on a CVS date point for 
newlin and we release RTEMS we will create a tarball of that source and 
ask the newlib to tag the repo for us.

My hope is newlib will remain stable for a while.

> When Chris comes online, he may be able to give you some advice on how to
> extract the source and patch URLs in a way that would be easy to digest.

Currently there is no way to export just the configuration. This is 
something I have been wanting to add for a while but never had the need 
for or time to do. I think it is important to be able to audit a 
configuration easily. Sorry but no promises on when this may get done.

Chris

> You would be the first consumer of the configuration so we want it to be
> easy for the Debian packages to track the RSB.
>> Is it worthwhile for me to package 4.8.2+2.1.0 at this point, or should
>> I wait for a 4.11 release?
>>
> Go ahead and package one up. The tools appear to be pretty stable at
> this point.
>