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

[Joel Sherrill]

On 8/7/2014 9:53 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> On 08/06/2014 07:38 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
>> ...
>>>>>> 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.
> I agree that this is convenient in the short term to facilitate
> toolchain development.  I hope the long term plan includes mirroring
> files not hosted on rtems.org.
>
>> ...
>> 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.
> I hope I don't need too much hand holding on this.
>
> This morning I've been parsing this configuration:
>
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/rtems/config/tools/rtems-gcc-4.8.2-newlib-2.1.0-1.cfg
>
> Which has led me to:
>
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/source-builder/config/gcc-4.8-1.cfg
>
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/source-builder/config/gcc-common-1.cfg
>
> From which I extract the following:
>
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.8.2/gcc-4.8.2.tar.bz2
>
> ftp://sourceware.org/pub/newlib/newlib-2.1.0.tar.gz
>
> The newlib link appears to be broken at the moment, but I found a mirror.
>
> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/newlib/newlib-2.1.0.tar.gz
>
> The only patch referenced is
>
> http://git.rtems.org/rtems-tools/plain/tools/4.11/newlib/newlib-sys-signal-20130532.diff
>
> I find no mention of gcc-4.8.2-rtems4.11-20140210.diff which is present in
The master location is rtems-tools. I don't know anything about that patch.

Chris.. any comments on this?
> http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/SOURCES/4.11/
>
> So my plan would be to fetch gcc-4.8.2.tar.bz2 and newlib-2.1.0.tar.gz.
>  I would apply the patches gcc-4.8.2-rtems4.11-20140210.diff and
> newlib-sys-signal-20130532.diff.
>
> Does this seem workable?
>
If the RSB doesn't reference a patch, then it hasn't been community
reviewed.
Patches from the RTEMS community are supposed to be in rtems-tools git.

You shouldn't include anything not used in an RSB build.

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