RE: [ECOS] compilation errors while building eCos

["Robert Cragie" <rcc at jennic dot com>]

> Just deleting the links to that old version and saying that CVS
> is theonly way to get
> ecos would definitely help.
> People tend to download first and read the docs along the way so
> that paragraph
> with "strongly recommended" might be intrepreted as "try 1.3.1
> and when you
> know how to build ecos and want to do real development get the latest"
> Jani.

The fact of the matter is that this is obviously what people are doing,
judging by the number of posts on the subject.

> > The latest development versions of eCos are now provided via the eCos
> > anonymous CVS repository, and it is strongly recommended that wherever
> > possible this mechanism is used in preference to downloading eCos
> > 1.3.1. eCos 1.3.1 does not have the functionality, platform coverage,
> > nor bug fixes that are available in the latest versions of eCos.
> >
> >
> > Anybody who has not read this is probably ignoring all the
> > documentation and so making it even stronger worded is not going to
> > help.

So remove the 1.3.1 links, then they have no alternative. I appreciate what
you are saying, however, for example, many people who wish to use eCos will
not have English as their native language and judging by the use of English
on some of the posts (which in no way is meant to be a critcism, just an
observation), this does need to be taken into consideration.

> >
> >     Andrew
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:08:06AM -0000, Robert Cragie wrote:
> > > I know I have asked this before, but can't someone PLEASE
> update the Redhat
> > > web pages to reflect that 1.3.1 is indeed out of date? I can
> imagine it
> > > would save a lot of people the frustration of errored builds
> and a lot of
> > > traffic on this list.
> > >
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> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > > > [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Andrew Lunn
> > > > Sent: 06 February 2003 09:43
> > > > To: ramanamurthy.saripalli@siritech.com
> > > > Cc: eCos Disuss
> > > > Subject: Re: [ECOS] compilation errors while building eCos
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:08:28PM +0530,
> > > > ramanamurthy.saripalli@siritech.com wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I have installed the new version of configuration
> tool(1.3).  ecos 1.3.1
> > > >
> > > > 1.3.1 is very, very old. Get the anonymouse CVS version.
> > > >
> > > > > i386-elf-gcc -c  -I/ecos-c/eCos/my-eCos/my-ecos_install/include
> > > > > -I/ecos-c/eCos/packages/hal/common/v1_3_1
> > > > > -I/ecos-c/eCos/packages/hal/common/v1_3_1/src
> > > > > -I/ecos-c/eCos/packages/hal/common/v1_3_1/tests -I.
> > > > > -I/ecos-c/eCos/packages/hal/common/v1_3_1/src/ -Wall
> -Wpointer-arith
> > > > > -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wundef -Woverloaded-virtual -g -O2
> > > > > -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
> > > > -fvtable-gc
> > > > > -finit-priority -Wp,-MD,src/generic-stub.tmp -o
> > > > > src/hal_common_generic-stub.o
> > > > > /ecos-c/eCos/packages/hal/common/v1_3_1/src/generic-stub.c
> > > > > cc1: Invalid option `-Woverloaded-virtual'
> > > > > cc1: Invalid option `-fno-rtti'
> > > > > cc1: Invalid option `-fvtable-gc'
> > > > > cc1: Invalid option `-finit-priority'
> > > >
> > > > This looks like you have the wrong toolchain version.
> > > >
> > > >      Andrew
> > > >
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