ANN: toolchains for redhat-el4-rtems4.9 to be discontinued

[jerry.needell at unh.edu (Jerry Needell)]

We are using CENTOS5 - does this issue apply there as well?
On May 8, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Hi,
>
> RHEL4 rsp. CentOS4 does not provide sufficient recent tools (here gm4)
> to be able to use for future rtems development.
>
> I requested an RFE for RH to upgrade gm4
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443958
> but so far, no reaction from RH.
>
> Shouldn't they upgrade in near future, there are 3 potential escapes:
>
> a) RTEMS to ship a package to replace RH's gm4
> This would render the purpose of RHEL void and would upset many
> sysadmins be we would replay a vendor supplied packages
>
> b) RTEMS to ship a customized gm4 to be installed into /opt/rtems-4.9,
> in parallel to the original gm4.
>
> This is tedious packaging-wise and error-prone to use.
> Something I'd rather avoid.
>
> c) Us to abandon support for RHEL4
>
>
> ATM, I am clearly leaning towards c). It's the least intrusive and  
> least
> expensive approach.
>
> Please speak up know, should you be using or planning to use RHEL4 or
> CentOS for rtems4.9 development. Otherwise support (rpms) for
> RHEL4/CentOS may vanish any time soon.
>
>
> Ralf
>
>
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