[ECOS] Re: What is the current status of the iPaq application? (target)

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

On 2008-10-29, Chris Zimman <czimman@bloomberg.com> wrote:
>> > So therefore what am I expected to do? Create my own based on the
>> > latest release of GCC and related binary utilities, and of course
>> > newlib?
>> 
>> Do ARM users still need to build newlib?
>
> If what you mean is 'If I build my own toolchain, do I need to
> build newlib?' then if you're building arm-elf or
> arm-none-eabi, then yes.  It's pretty easy though, so no big
> deal.

This has probably been answered before, but what's broken about
the gcc ARM target such it that requires newlib?  Or is this an
eCos requirement? 

I've built GCC cross compilers for embedded use on a half-dozen
architectures, and none of the others required newlib.

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