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Re: any plans for an "official" newlib snapshot ?
Werner Almesberger wrote:
>
> J. Johnston wrote:
> > Ignore this. This is a trivial change and I will do it shortly.
>
> Thanks ! So I think we're ready for merging now.
>
> The patch with my Linux-related changes for the CVS version of 23-NOV-2000
> 11:45 UTC is in
>
> ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/misc/newlib-linux/
> patch-newlib-linux-15.gz
>
> (the whole package is in newlib-linux-15.tar.gz in the same directory.)
>
> There's one more issue: naming the beast. Right now, it's simply
> libc/sys/linux, and the target wildcard expression (in configure.host)
> is *-*-linux-*
>
> This may be too optimistic. I've only tested things on i386. Quite a few
> things should also work on non-i386 platforms (well, I tried it on my
> ~'97 SparcLinux RH 4.0 installation and it failed miserably, but this is
> expected behaviour with gcc 2.7.2), though, so I'm not sure if it's
> better to restrictive or to be permissive here. The result should be the
> same anyway (i.e. a failed build).
>
This has to be fixed. For now, it should be only be i[3456]86-pc-linux-*, especially
since you specify i386 defines.
-- Jeff J.