RedHat 6.0

[tonya at ece.ubc.ca (Tony R. Ambardar)]

On Wed, 12 May 1999 joel at oarcorp.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Tony R. Ambardar wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone managed to build i386 cross-compiler tools for RTEMS-4.0.0 or
> > greater on a RedHat 6.0 Linux/i386 box? I run into problems with
> > fixincludes and some other library stuff. Everything builds OK under
> > RedHat 5.2. Several packages have been updated in 6.0. My list of suspects
> > includes bash, make, automake, autoconf, the shell utils...
> 
> This sounds suspiciously like the rmdir(1) behavior problem that Ralf has
> run into.  It has something about rmdir of a directory with a . in it.  I
> thought this was dealt with in the rtems patch.
> 
[...]
> 
> The cause of this problem is the fragment from gcc/fixincludes below:
> 
> > echo 'Removing unneeded directories:'
> > cd $LIB
> > files=`find . -type d -print | sort -r`
> > for file in $files; do
> >   rmdir $LIB/$file > /dev/null 2>&1
> > done
> 

I had already managed to track this down and fix it by changing the "find"
command to "find . -type d ! -name '.' -print".

A second problem arises when building some of the info files. "makeinfo" 
will fail, complaining that texinfo @xref commands must be followed by a
"," or "." (this is a valid complaint). The texinfo package from RedHat
5.2 bypassed this @xref check and can be used as a replacement for the
RedHat 6.0 texinfo. 

After these two fixes I have succeeded in building
gcc-2.8.1/gnat-3.11p/binutils-2.9.1/newlib-1.8.1/rtems-19990426 but I
still run into a couple of problems with software floating-point that I am
trying to iron out. I suspect they are related either to RedHat 6.0 or
newlib-1.8.1.

I have also tried building egcs-1.1.2/binutils-2.9.1/newlib-1.8.1 with the
latest patches and the previous 2 fixes applied. The compilation fails at
2 files -- filbuf.cc and streambuf.h -- with errors about some
redeclarations.

If any of this sounds familiar to people, please let me know.

Thanks.
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