From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C7F74FB.1BC24793@lvl7.com> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 07:32:59 -0500 From: Neil Horman MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Magnus Damm Cc: laurent.pinchart@capflow.com, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Development tools version References: <3C7E3471.4080708@capflow.com> <3C7E372A.7B4E5F0@lvl7.com> <3C7F3507.1060702@capflow.com> <3C7F6654.25F7E0FE@lvl7.com> <3C7F7319.1BCECF7E@opensource.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Really! Is there a patch available or are the problems persistent? I ask because we have had interesting behavior differences on occasion between stripped and unstripped versions of some software we are working on. Thanks! Neil :) Magnus Damm wrote: > > FYI, > > strip in binutils-2.11.2 has problems... > Not very important maybe, but annoying. > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-binutils/2001-q3/msg00108.html > > / magnus > > Neil Horman wrote: > > > > Yes, binutils 2.11.2. Sorry about my fat fingers... :) > > Say....Speaking of those memory faults. I never got around to researching > > them. Can you or anyone else provide general notes on exactly what those > > patches fix? I'd certainly appreciate it, as I always wanted to track those > > down, but never quite found the time. Thanks! > > > > Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I think that the Hard Hat tools will probably be the easiest for you to get up > > > >and running with. They have probably been the most throughly debugged for the > > > >8xx. Although if your looking to put together your own tools for the 860 > > > >series, we here have built the following, with a reasonably good deal of > > > >success. See the notes for details: > > > > > > > >Binutils: > > > > 2.1.2 - no problems at all. Download and build them for powerpc-linux and away > > > >you go > > > > > > > >GCC: > > > > 2.95.3 - again no real problems. > > > > > > > >GLIBC: > > > > 2.2.4 - relatively easy. Some issues with memory faults on occasion, which I > > > >have not yet traked down. > > > > > > > >GDB: > > > > 5.1.1 - no problems > > > > > > > >General notes: > > > > I've personally been following the embedded cross-gcc mini howto available on > > > >penguinppc.com and I've been more or less happy with the results. hope that > > > >helps! > > > > > > > Thanks Neil. > > > > > > I've been able to succesfully use the Hard Hat binaries (actually that's > > > so simple that I wouldn't have dared asking questions in this mailing > > > list if I hadn't :-), but I'd like to recompile from the sources, in > > > order not to depend on a binary release, and also to be able to modify > > > the tools if needed. > > > > > > I tried to compile the tools from the sources without patching them a > > > few months ago, and experienced memory faults and a lot of other > > > problems with dynamically linked executables (is that a known issue ?). > > > > > > Recompiling from the SRPMS shouldn't be a hard job, so that's what I'll > > > try. All the patches are supposed to be included in there... > > > > > > Just to make sure, did you mean binutils 2.11.2 ? > > > > > > Laurent Pinchart > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/