Re: [arm-gnu] 2010Q1 Release Available

[James Snyder <jbsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the release!

I have a few questions. I believe that the sources version of this
tarball does not include the debug sprite or the common startup code
that are under the CodeSourcery license.  The sources-only tarball
therefore should be redistributable under the licenses of the
contained tools (GPL, BSD, etc..)?

I have a toolchain building script that builds from these sources on
OS X (and also on Linux or other platforms) so that I can use the
latest patches from the CS team for a Mac-based development
environment, but it appears that there's a bandwidth cap on downloads
such that it takes some time to grab the whole tar.bz2 file.  I'd like
to have it mirrored a few places so that I and others can more quickly
get the sources as needed.

For reference, here's the Makefile I've put together:
http://github.com/jsnyder/arm-eabi-toolchain

I also have two patches that I'm applying because:
1) Bootstrapping fails on OS X due to a duplicate symbol, GCC already
has this patch:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-08/msg01690.html
2) On debian, /bin/sh uses Dash rather than bash as a shell, and this
results in genmultilib not running correctly.  As such, I just
replaced references to /bin/sh with /bin/bash since I wasn't sure how
to fix the problem.  I believe the failure occurs with one of the
temporary scripts that is written out by genmultilib.

Thanks!

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Julian Brown <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CodeSourcery is pleased to announce the availability of the 2010Q1
> Sourcery G++ Lite Edition release for ARM processors.  This is
> available for download from:
>
>        http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm
>
> Some of the new features in this release include:
>
> * Significant improvements to ARMv7-A performance and reductions in
>  Thumb-2 code size.
>
> * Better support for debugging object code generated by ARM's RealView®
>  compilers.
>
> * Upgrades to many components, including GDB and EGLIBC.
>
> Refer to the Getting Started Guide for the full set of release notes:
>
> ARM EABI:
> http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/doc7615/getting-started.pdf
>
> ARM GNU/Linux:
> http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/doc7606/getting-started.pdf
>
> ARM uClinux:
> http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/doc7632/getting-started.pdf
>
> ARM SymbianOS:
> http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/doc7271/getting-started.pdf
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Julian Brown
>



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