Support for Cygnus-style trees has been removed

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 17:43 +0100, Lukas Martini wrote:
> sorry, should've been more clear:
> 
> Yes, compiling newlib per se works if I use the existing ./configure
> script in the releases. However, as I'm building it for a custom kernel
> instead of a bare-metal machine or linux, I have to add a new directory
> under newlib/libc/sys, change the configuration scripts to be aware of
> the new architecture, and then reconfigure newlib. Which does not appear
> to be working, because of the issue mentioned in my initial email.

Correct, you need to use automake-1.11.x in cygnus trees (binutils-gdb,
gcc, newlib-cygwin):

https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html#TOC1

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Yaakov Selkowitz
Associate Software Engineer, ARM
Red Hat, Inc.