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Re: Tool building instructions for eCos


Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Apologies if this has been asked before, but.... Have the rules regarding
the whole idea behind building the tools for eCos, changed any since 1.3.1
was put on the ftp site, and 2.0 was placed in CVS?  Especially since the
binary utillities versions have outstripped that page. Its now up to 2.13,
according to this page http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/ I myself have
here, the source code for Slackware Linux, version 8.0, which came with 2.11
with a minor number of .90 for it. And with the soruce code for gcc, which
gave its version as 2.95.3. Will those work?
To be honest, yes, those pages are well out of date with respect to recommended versions, and it's one of the things on the list to actually go and try out the zillion different toolchains to check they build and run.

Using more recent versions should be fine, bearing in mind that any problems you have related to those are better directed at the appropriate lists ( e.g. <binutils@sources.redhat.com> etc.) than here.

The only thing I would advise you _not_ to do, is use binutils sources that come with your Linux distro. Those sources are well known for having Linux only hacks and fixes in them, i.e. fixes that break non-Linux targets. It's better to get the genuine binutils sources. The same may well be true of GCC: a vendor will have provided the sources solely for building *their* compiler, not a general purpose one.

Jifl
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