Building BINUTILS fails under CYGWIN

[corsepiu at faw.uni-ulm.de (Ralf Corsepius)]

Silverio Diquigiovanni wrote:

> Mr. John Mills,
>
> after a big lot of times I have finally a complete environment of RTEMS
> 4.0.0 for Hitachi SH1 in Windows 95 and NT4 hosts.
>
> My best regards to Mr.Mark Farnan and Mr.David J.Fiddes for their
> precious answers.
>
> I have included a detailed step-list to obtain RTEMS for Hitachi SH1 in
> Cygwin32 (I hope it is useful).
>
> !!! Attention, this is my personal interpretation of Chapter 7: Using
> MS-Windows as a Development Host from Geoffroy Montel & David Fiddes. To
> complete reference read that section !!!
>
> My Question if you use Linux how host environment for RTEMS :
>
> 01) Which version/distribution of Linux you use ?

This shouldn't matter, any recent *nix OS should work if you have all
required gnu-tools installed.

Some rtems-4.0.0 configurations however have problems on glibc2 systems.

>
> 02) To debug RTEMS programs you use gdb or others (which) ?
>

We have been using gdb together with ddd and xxgdb for the SH.

I also know about a version of Hint for unix, floating around somewhere on
the WEB, but gdb is far superior to Hint so I can't recomment using Hint.

Ralf