crosstool-0.32 released

[Dan Kegel]

Hey, kids, time to try gcc-4.0.0!
Also includes several bugfixes, and nicer RPM support.
And the build matrix can now stun an ox.

Home page:
http://kegel.com/crosstool/
Quick download:
http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.32.tar.gz
Build results matrix:
http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.32/buildlogs/

Changelog:

0.32:
     New features:
     * sanitized kernel header support (from Arno Schuring)
     * gcc-4.0.0 support

     regtest-{run,report}.sh:
     * generates much more complete build matrix in buildlogs/
     * generates simple text summary of buildlogs, all.dats.txt
     * build matrix html report now has labels on right and bottom, too
     * no more silly .sh suffix in middle of filenames in buildlogs/
     * regtest-run.sh now digests log files, so regtest-report.sh
       doesn't have to
     * now smarter about recovering from failures on remote system

     crosstool.sh bugfixes:
     * The change in 0.29 to build the apps that come with glibc with
       the real compiler should have only done it if really needed.
       Doing it when it's not needed causes problems like
       build-glibc/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `__deregister_frame_info'
       when building the apps that come with glibc.
       I now avoid rebuilding the glibc apps if they were already built
       earlier, which should fix this.
     * That change also caused some files like bits/syscalls.h and bin/iconv
       to not be installed.  Thanks to Peter Barada for catching this.
     * fixed minor test -z ${LINUX_DIR}/.config bug

     Improved rpm support:
     * crosstool.sh now builds fix-embedded-paths, a little app you can
       use to fix embedded paths in gcc and binutils binaries.  Useful
       especially for gcc-2.95.3 and binutils < 2.14.  It lets you build
       crosstool in one place, then later move it somewhere else.
     * no longer assumes you have fedora-rpmdevtools installed
     * now tested even with old redhat 7.1's version of rpm and buildrpm
     * The generated spec files now only build combinations known to work.
       They look at buildresults/*.dat.txt to tell what works.
     * rpms no longer have directory permissions problems if installed
       with funny umask, and no longer leave directories behind after
       uninstallation
     * You can now build from sprms as a normal user without making
       /opt/crosstool or /usr/crosstool writable first
     * host c++ no longer stripped with target 'strip' when building rpm
     * now generates RPMs for gcc's shared libraries in case you want
       to run newer gcc's than your development system has installed
     * buildcommonrpm.sh - first cut at silly little package to hold config.guess
       (useful mainly for my $prefix/`config.guess`/$target build layout)

     getandpatch.sh:
     * Now looks in new environment variable $TARBALLS_CACHE_DIR before
       downloading to $TARBALLS_DIR.  This was added to make life easier
       when generating .src.rpm's.
     * Now knows about a second download site for gcc and glibc
       (useful if ftp.gnu.org is down)

     glibc:
     * added patches to let glibc-2.2.2 be compiled with gcc-3.4
     * added x86 sysv abi compliance patch glibc-2.2.2-export_fp_hw.patch
       to both glibc-2.1.3 and glibc-2.2.2

     cygwin target:
     * updated to current cygwin (old one isn't online anymore -- they move fast?)

     doc/crosstool-howto.html:
     * added links to
       http://ftp.jg555.com/patches/raq2   - Jim Gifford's MIPS / Raq2 patches
       http://www.andric.com/cross/patches - Dmitry Andric's ARM / vfp patches

     Known issues:
     * several architectures that have trouble now (e.g. sh4) will probably
       be happier with sanitized kernel headers; I haven't tried them.
     * The demo-$CPU.sh scripts are way out of date, and should be
       auto-generated from the build matrix
     * The build matrix was computed by building on redhat 7.1,
       so the failure of x86_64 with gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.2 is
       expected.  It works on newer build machines.  See http://gcc.gnu.org/PR9552



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