Re: GNU/Cross Tools RPMs available

["Brian LaPonsey" <brian dot laponsey at motorola dot com>]

Joel,

I have been working on building gnu-cross tools for mcore-elf, but I don't
have an effective way to distribute them.  Our company web site isn't really
set up for this kind of thing, and I've had trouble getting the tools posted
there with the right filenames, without licensing restrictions, etc.

I see you have binutils and gdb for mcore-elf, but not an mcore-elf-gcc.  I
have written a build script that builds all the tools and runs the test
suite on the FSF's "plain vanilla" gcc source tree, and I have found that
gcc-3.0.4 has far fewer unexpected failures than gcc-3.2.1 for the mcore-elf
target (147 vs. 241).  In contrast, the test results for powerpc-eabi are
something like 19 unexpected failures.  The test suite is run with the
simulator as a target.

Would it be possible for OARcorp to distribute a pre-built gcc-3.0.4 for
mcore-elf, or are you committed to only distributing the latest versions?
It would be a real help to have a web site where people could get free mcore
tools, but I don't really want to distribute an mcore-elf-gcc-3.2.1 if it
has problems.

On the other hand, is it better to work with the gcc-3.2.1 release to get it
fixed?  This seems (to me) a daunting task, but hopefully there will be help
available.

Thanks,

Brian LaPonsey
Motorola Semiconductor Products
East Kilbride, Scotland

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Sherrill" <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>
To: <crossgcc@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: GNU/Cross Tools RPMs available


>
> Hi,
>
> Over the past few years, the RTEMS Project has provided pre-built
> toolsets for our target.  I have leveraged this experience and
> the build scripts to provide a fairly large set of RPMs for
> various cross targets.  I am focusing on the targets that are
> not OS dependent and usually have targets of the form CPU-OBJECT_FORMAT.
> These are hosted on a GNU/Linux RedHat 7.3 x86.
>
> The following sources were used with RTEMS Project approved patches:
>
> + binutils 2.13.1
> + gcc 3.2.1
> + newlib 1.10.0
> + gdb 5.2
>
> We are provided at least binutils for the following 28 targets:
>
> arc-elf arm-elf arm-wince avr-elf d10v-elf d30v-elf fr30-elf
> h8300-coff hppa1.1-proelf i386-elf i960-coff i960-elf
> m32r-elf m68hc11-elf m68k-coff m68k-elf mcore-elf
> mips64orion-elf mips-elf mn10200-elf mn10300-elf powerpc-eabi
> sh-coff sh-elf sh-hms sparc-elf v850-elf xscale-elf
>
> and provide RPMs for everything that would build for
> that target (17 gcc targets, and 26 gdb targets).  We
> filed PRs on the problems.  The resulting RPMs
> are available at ftp://ftp.oarcorp.com/pub/gnucross/.
>
> The general instructions for installation are to install the
> base packages which contain files that are target CPU indepedent
> and then the target specific files.  More specifically:
>
> rpm -i gnucross-base-binutils-2.13.1-1.i386.rpm
> rpm -i gnucross-base-gcc-gcc3.2.1newlib1.10.0-3.i386.rpm
> rpm -i gnucross-base-gdb-5.2-1.i386.rpm
>
> then for each target:
>
> rpm -i TARGET-binutils-2.13.1-1.i386.rpm
> rpm -i TARGET-gcc-gcc3.2.1newlib1.10.0-3.i386.rpm
> rpm -i TARGET-c++-gcc3.2.1newlib1.10.0-3.i386.rpm
> rpm -i TARGET-gdb-5.2-1.i386.rpm
>
> When you are done, you should have a working toolset for
> TARGET in /opt/gnucross.  So just add /opt/gnucross/bin to
> your PATH.
>
> I am interested in hearing feedback.  Please discuss things
> on the crossgcc list.  If things go well with these, we should
> be able to provide the same things for Cygwin and Solaris.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
> joel@OARcorp.com                 On-Line Applications Research
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>
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