Re: [ECOS] ecos 131 without gcc

["Arvind" <arvindj at sasi dot com>]

Hi

I am just curious, what compilers (other than gcc) can be used to build ecos
?

regards
Arvind

----- Original Message -----
From: <Rene.Affourtit@pemstar.nl>
To: <bartv@redhat.com>
Cc: <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] ecos 131 without gcc


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> thanks, a symbolic link did the trick
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>                     Bart Veer
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without gcc
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> >>>>> "Rene" == Rene Affourtit <Rene.Affourtit@pemstar.nl> writes:
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>     Rene> I'm trying to build ecos 131 for CL7111 but I don't want to
>     Rene> use gcc. ( Yes I know ecos is designed for gcc and uses
>     Rene> specific features, but I have a working version 1.2.9)
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>     Rene> I want to use another compiler, but where can I set the name
>     Rene> for this? I noticed that in the configuration tool I can
>     Rene> specify the prefix, but -gcc is appended. Is there a way to
>     Rene> prevent this?
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> No. The eCos source code assumes throughout that gcc and the GNU tools
> will be used to build eCos. That applies to the various host tools as
> well to the target-side code.
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> One approach would be to patch the generated makefiles and change the
> definition of CC. That is not going to work too well in a GUI
> environment though.
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> Another approach might be to set up a shell alias, shell script,
> symbolic link, or even copy or rename the compiler executable, so that
> when make tries to run arm-elf-gcc it finds the alternative compiler
> instead.
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> Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer
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