RTEMS 4.11.0 build fails on Windows

[Chris Johns]

On 12/04/2017 00:36, Worth Burruss wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2017 at 11:39, Chris Johns wrote:
>
>> On 11/04/2017 00:02, Worth Burruss wrote:
>>> Linda,
>>>
>>> What you are seeing is caused by a recent upgrade of gcc in the MSYS2 enviornment.  A few
>>> months ago it was 5.something and now it is 6.something.  I came across this last week in
>>> setting up a new machine.  I found a patch from the GCC mailing list for 5.something and
>>> adjusted it for gcc 4.9.3.
>>>
>>> Attached are the 2 patches I created and put in a temp area to come back to latter and
>>> properly fix when I had time.  I have never applied them to another system, but am pretty
>>> sure they should work.  The gcc patch file goes in your rsb/rtems/patches directory and the
>>> rsb will do the patch application.  the other patch you have to appy with:
>>>
>>> patch -p1 < rsb-fix-for-gcc-4.11-2017-0405-1.patch
>>>
>>> with -p1 depending on where you put the patch, I can not remeber for sure but think this
>>> would be the top level rsb directory.
>>>
>>> Unfortunatly I do not have time for the next 2 or 3 weeks to actualy look into fixing the
>>> patches properly so issues still exist, you will definitly get a warning about no checksum for
>>> the gcc patch file, but it will not stop the build.  I suspect others may exist such as carriage
>>> return / line feeds.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this is enough to get you started.
>>
>> This is excellent work and thank you for a really great answer.
>>
>> Could please create a ticket and attach your patches? The Release wiki
>> page provides a link to create a 4.11 release branch bug report ...
>
>
> Created as 2990, with only the gcc patch attached.  Linda is correct the patch to fix the RSB
> was put in a less than proper place.  At the time I needed a working 4.11 arm compiler on a
> specific windows machine.
>

Thank you. I will take a look at this and see if this can be make the 
4.11.2 release.

Chris