[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] toolchain-external: Add Sourcery CodeBench for Nios-II

[Ezequiel García]

On 21 August 2013 15:47, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Ezequiel García,
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:32:25 -0300, Ezequiel García wrote:
>
>> Yes, I was aware of that. I tried to find such information, but couldn't :-(
>>
>> Any idea how do I get that information from the toolchain itself?
>
> Usually, all the Sourcery CodeBench toolchain have a document in
> share/doc/<tuple>/pdf/getting-started.pdf with many details about the
> toolchain.
>

Ah, good hint. The PDFs have many details, indeed.

> Otherwise:
>
>  * nios-linux-gcc -v
>  * nios-linux-gdb -v

Yup, I manage to get up to here....

>  * find . -name 'ld-*.so' will identify which ld-2.xx.so, which will
>    tell you the version of glibc
>

.. and I couldn't get to get the libc and binutils version.

>> >  Why do you want to support two patchlevels of the same base version?
>> >
>>
>> Not sure, actually. Just added all the options currently available.
>
> Hum?
>
>> Do you think is silly? Should I leave the latest one alone?
>
> You can support multiple versions, but not multiple patchlevel of the
> same version, because it's silly.
>
> Since I know you know how kernel versions work, what you did is like
> supporting 3.10.6 and 3.10.7: it's pointless, 3.10.7 is basically the
> same as 3.10.6 with a few additional fixes. Of course, supporting both
> 3.9 and 3.10 might make sense.
>
> Look at the other Sourcery Codebench toolchain entries in Buildroot. We
> support multiple versions, but not multiple patchlevel of the same
> version.
>

Sure. Now I see why it was silly.
-- 
Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar