On 8/1/22 9:34 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 4:17 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: >> >> On 8/1/22 8:28 am, Ryan Long wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Our MacOS VM is failing to build several of the tools on the RTEMS 5 >>> branch. We >>> think that using an older version of gcc should get all of the tools to >>> build. I >>> tried build gcc-4.8 with the RSB, but I get the following error. >>> >>> >>> tester@VM-MacOS bare % ../source-builder/sb-set-builder >>> --prefix=${HOME}/rtems-cron-5/tools/gcc-48 gnu-tools-4.8.2 >>> RTEMS Source Builder - Set Builder, 5 (6225eadda1de modified) >>> Build Set: gnu-tools-4.8.2 >>> error: gnu-tools-4.8.2:24: cannot find file: devel/gcc-4.8.2-newlib-cvs-1 >>> Build Set: Time 0:00:00.000607 >>> Build FAILED >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know how to get these tools to build? >>> >> >> It looks like the recipe has rotted. > > Was there a native gcc recipe? The name includes newlib which would > imply it is intended for use with RTEMS.
The `bare/config` tree had recipes to build bare metal tool chains. > Also clearly old with cvs in the name. > > Having the ability to build an older gcc would ease the burden of > using 5 on newer FreeBSD, Linux, etc with stricter compilers. As > with everything, doing it with the RSB gives us control. Yes but do we want to head down that path? Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel