Re: [ECOS] Officially recommended gcc version?

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 04:30:58PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:

> > What's the officially recommended gcc version for building
> > eCos?
> 
> "Official" is what you make of it. There's no "official"
> support, so really you can do what you want - it's just we do
> know about some things that don't work.

That's official enough for me...

> > The web page at
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/tools/linux-arm-elf.html shows
> > the first option (2.95.2 + patch).
> 
> The patch will be needed on some targets even if you used the
> 2.95.3 code base - it includes a few things that were not
> suitable for 2.95.3. However, the patch won't apply to 2.95.3
> cleanly :-|. I never reworked it for 2.95.3 because 3.0 was so
> close and I didn't want to retest a whole bunch of targets.
> Unless you are hitting a definite obstacle, stick with the
> first option.

That's what I was tentatively planning unless somebody knew of
a reason not to.  That's now the "official" plan.  :)

[Thanks for the update on 3.0 progress.]

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com