Building 4.8 on OS X

[nigel at adi.co.nz (Nigel Spon)]

Hi,

I'm working on getting rtems 4.8.0 built for PowerPC under Mac OS  
10.5, and making reasonable progress. I hope to make it work with  
Apples XCode IDE in due course, but at the moment I'm just trying to  
get the build process up by following the "Getting Started with RTEMS"  
documentation.

I have (apparently) successfully built the cross-compiler and  
associated tools, and have set up the path to their /bin subdirectory.  
This now has a bunch of tools in it all prefixed with powerpc- 
rtems4.8. I have verified the toolset operation on a small file: I can  
do:

powerpc-rtems4.8-gcc -v -S f.c

and get appropriate responses. However I can't say:

powerpc-rtems-gcc -v -S f.c

which seems to make sense, because none of the tools are called that.

The trouble is that if I try to build RTEMS it fails with:

checking for powerpc-rtems-gcc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

... which seems to indicate it is looking for powerpc-rtems-gcc, not  
powerpc-rtems4.8-gcc. What is the right way to fix this? Have I missed  
creating some link files somewhere, or do my tools need to be renamed  
with more generic names?

Thanks for any assistance,

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Michael Hamel
ADInstruments Ltd, Dunedin, NZ