[ECOS] Re: Embedded PC SBC

[Bart Veer <bartv at cygnus dot co dot uk>]

>>>>> "John" == j d charlton <j.d.charlton@ieee.org> writes:

    John> I think I am making progress.  I removed the offending packages (I had
    John> to remove about 5 total). Now I get the following error when processing
    John> targets:

    John> [charlton@marble ecos-i386-stub]$ tclsh ~/cygnus/ecos-1.2.1/packages/pkgconf.tcl --target i386 --platform pc --startup floppy --disable-kernel --disable-uitron --disable-libc --disable-libm --disable-io --disable-io_serial --disable-wallclock --disable-watchdog
    John> Unexpected error while processing /home/charlton/cygnus/ecos-1.2.1/packages/targets
    John> invalid command name "base_platform"
    John> [charlton@marble ecos-i386-stub]$ 

Looking at Patrick's release notes for the hal-i386-pc-19991028.tgz
file, that release is intended to work with the current sources as
available via anonymous CVS
(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/anoncvs.html). The base_platform
facility was added to pkgconf.tcl and the targets file after the eCos
1.2.1 release, so trying to use that release in conjunction with 
hal-i386-pc-19991028.tgz is going to be problematical. In fact there
may be other incompatibilities as well.

You will need to either:

1) work with the current eCos anonymous CVS sources, in conjunction
   with Patrick's latest release.

or:

2) work with the eCos 1.2.1 release and Patrick's original
   i386-pc-0.1.tgz file.

I suspect the earlier problems were caused by a similar
incompatibility problem.

Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer