There are a few small problems int the toolchain installation running the ecos-install.tcl script as indicated in http://ecos.sourceware.org/getstart.html. By default the script doesn't indicate what the problem is but does when verbose output is enabled. The script is failing to properly capture the contents of stderr to report them after the problem occurs (why not just leave stderr unredirected?). The original problem is that the hard links in the ecoscentric-gnutools-arm-elf-1.4-2.cygwin.tar.bz2 cannot be untarred/reproduced when used under Cygwin / WindowsXP. This problem also prevents the environment setup files from being produced.
My Cygwin tar is $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.16 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. Running the program as documented results in the following: $ sh ecos-install.tcl Unpacking ecoscentric-gnutools-arm-elf-1.4-2.cygwin.tar.bz2... *** tar returned error. *** First five lines of error output believed to be: *** ecos-install.tcl error: tar unpack failed Running it again with -v option, a few lines like the following occur mixed in with the rest of the tar verbose output hrwxr-xr-x bartv/None 0 2003-02-02 18:45 gnutools/arm-elf/arm-elf/bin/g++.exe link to gnutools/arm-elf/arm-elf/bin/c++.exe /usr/bin/tar: gnutools/arm-elf/arm-elf/bin/g++.exe: Cannot hard link to `gnutools/arm-elf/arm-elf/bin/c++.exe': No such file or directory And it ends with /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors child process exited abnormally while executing "close file10100648" invoked from within "catch "close $tar_fd" code" (procedure "ecos_install::cli_fatal_error_handler" line 25) invoked from within "$ecos_install::fatal_error_handler "$msg"" (procedure "fatal_error" line 2) invoked from within "fatal_error "tar unpack failed"" (procedure "ecos_install::unpack_tarballs" line 42) invoked from within "ecos_install::unpack_tarballs" (procedure "ecos_install::cli_fatal_error_handler" line 15) invoked from within "$ecos_install::fatal_error_handler "$msg"" (procedure "ecos_install::fatal_error" line 2) invoked from within "ecos_install::fatal_error "*** ecos-install.tcl error: $error_message"" invoked from within "if { ! [info exists ecos_install_not_standalone] } { # catch any errors while processing the specified command if { [ catch { ..." (file "ecos-install.tcl" line 1184) -- Chris -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
