Combination of egcs/newlib/binutils, patches

[georgi at infotech.tu-chemnitz.de (Marcus Georgi)]

Hello,

is there a recommended combination, which versions of egcs, newlib and
binutils  and appropriate patches to use?
I'm asking because I don't get printf working and I'm not sure if the
problem might be in newlib.

For instance, if I want to use newlib-1.8.1, where do I get the matching
RTEMS patch from?
(Using newlib-1.8.0-rtems-diff-19981027.gz causes questions like: 
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] 
Apply anyway? [n] )

so far, I used 
egcs-1.1b/newlib-1.8.0/binutils-2.9.1 and the RTEMS patches as provided
in the RTEMS-4.0.0 release. I'm building for i960ca on i686/Linux SuSE
6.1.

Further patches used:
fixinclude patch to be able to build the tools on Linux SuSE 6.1 at all
	to be found in the mail from Tony R. Ambardar on 7 Jun 1999
libc_global_reent_bug patch
	to be found in the mail from Charles Gauthier on 29 Mar 1999

Btw, it would be a great help if patches could be made available in some
central place (ftp directory?). So far it is rather a matter of good
luck finding neccessary patches somewhere in some email.

Thanks for any hints,
Marcus