Re: [ECOS] Problems with ecosSWtools and thumb-elf

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk>]

Geir Harris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk (Jonathan Larmour) writes:
> > I believe binutils-2.9.1 should be adequate though.
> 
> No, it wasn't. The 2.9.1 bfd does not know the arm-unknown-elf target.
> *Sigh*

Oh well, FWIW it is _definitely_ in a recent binutils snapshot.

> > If you download newlib from ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/newlib/, and put
> > symlinks in your egcs tree to the "newlib" and "libgloss" directories
> > in that distribution, that should work around some of the problems
> > you had further down. You also won't need to define inhibit_libc I
> > believe.
> 
> Something like
> 
> ln -s ../newlib.../newlib newlib
> ln -s ../newlib.../libgloss libgloss
> 
> ?

Yep. Although it seems that libgloss may be irrelevant after all.

> The egcs configure script say:
> 
> geirhh 100 %: ../egcs-19990714/configure --target=arm-elf --prefix=/local/hacks/arm
> Configuring for a sparc-sun-solaris2.6 host.
> *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
>      target-libgloss
>     (Any other directories should still work fine.)
> 
> And this probably makes the whole thing barf when I come to the
> fixincludes stage.

Not sure. Can you send me (not the list) the output at the point it goes
wrong?

Ta,

Jifl
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