* Posix BSP configuration: Moved some rules from make/custom/*-posix.cfg
files to make/custom/posix.cfg, Removed references to stdc++ from
*posix.cfg files (rtems doesn't use/need libstdc++)
NOTE: Building Posix-BSPs should now work again for native compilation with
gcc, i..e. linux using primary compiler and primary libc.
All Posix-BSP configurations that don't use gcc as primary compiler or
don't use the primary libc don't work, e.g. solaris, linux w/ egcs as
secondary compiler won't be built correctly.
Here are some patches to the gen68360 BSP. The improvements include:
Boot prom run-time selection of DRAM size (1/4/16 Mbytes)
Full 32-bit ethernet address obtained from boot prom.
Updated README.
I've included a version of make/custom/gen68360.cfg that works with
this. Note that I've removed the option of using `-m68020
-msoft-float -mno-bitfield' as an alternative to using `-mcpu32'.
The alternative won't work with the new system (since it predefines
__mc68020__ and not __mcpu32__), and didn't really work before anyway
(since the newlib that gets linked was built with `-m68020
-msoft-float' and so could contain bitfield operators).
While trying to work through this problem I decided that the
build-time selection of the console I/O operation (polling or
interrupt) was too clumsy. Here's a patch that allows run-time
(actually init-time) selection of the console I/O mode.
It also shows the need for another `flags' or `options' field in
the rtems_driver_address_table structure...
Yep, I have a bunch of bug-fixes and additions pending (Yet another monster
patch, ... I can hear you scream :-).
1) configure.in : one AC_CONFIG_HEADER(...) line too much.
2) configure.in: gcc28 support is enabled by default, i.e. if no
--enable-gcc28 option is passed on the command line. I am not sure if this
is intentional.
IMO, AC_ARG_ENABLE for --enable-gcc28 should look like:
AC_ARG_ENABLE(gcc28, \
[ --enable-gcc28 enable use of gcc 2.8.x features], \
[case "${enableval}" in
yes) RTEMS_USE_GCC272=no ;;
no) RTEMS_USE_GCC272=yes ;;
*) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for gcc-28 option) ;;
esac],[RTEMS_USE_GCC272=yes])
3) At the end of c/src/exec/score/cpu/m68k/m68k.h
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
>
> #endif /* !ASM */
in my opinion these two statements should be swapped:
> #endif /* !ASM */
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
I didn't try to compile for m68k, but does't this give an error? Is it
compensated somewhere else - or didn't I look carefully enough?
5) configure.in: --enable-cpp should probably be renamed to --enable-cxx, as
gnu-programs use "cxx" to specify C++ specific configure options, while cpp
is used for the preprocessor (e.g egcs uses --with-cxx-includedir, autoconf
internally uses $CXX),
6) The macro files from aclocal/*.m4 contain the buggy sed-rules formerly
contained in aclocal..m4, i.e. the sed/sort-bug fix to aclocal.m4 didn't
make it to aclocal/*.m4. I think I should feel guilty for that - Obviously I
submitted the contents of an old aclocal-directory last time. - Sorry.
7) For sh-rtems, we currently need to add additional managers to
MANAGERS_REQUIRED (from inside of custom/*.cfg). Currently MANAGERS_REQUIRED
is defined in make/compilers/*.cfg. This seems to prevent overriding
MANAGERS_REQUIRED from custom/*.cfg files - Obviously the files are included
in such a way that the settings from compilers/*cfg always override settings
from custom/*.cfg files.
Furthermore, I think, defining MANAGERS_* inside gcc-<target>.cfg files is
not correct - MANAGERS are not gcc-variant-dependent, but depend
on targets/bsps and therefore should be defined in a bsp/target dependent
file, e.g. in custom/*.cfg or target.cfg.in.
I think defining default settings for MANAGERS* in custom/default.cfg could
be an appropriate location. But this requires all custom/*.cfg files to
include default.cfg, which *-posix.cfg files don't seem to do.
Therefore I would like propose to move MANAGERS* to target.cfg.in - they are
included by all custom/*.cfg files. Perhaps we/you should use this
opportunity to merge parts from custom/default.cfg into target.cfg.in. This
ensures to have the setting included once per target makefile and will open
the opportunity to have autoconf doing additional work on
bsp-configurations.
Peanuts sofar, ... but here it comes ... (:-)
8) I am preparing a major enhancement to autoconf support for
gnutools/compilers. It is not yet finished, but usable and I'll therefore
attach a preliminary version to this mail.
Motivation:
* Fix problems with --enable-gcc28, if target-cc is not gcc28 compatible
* Fix -pipe problems
* Fix problems with hard-coded paths in configuration files (esp. posix)
* Fix consistency problems with explictly given gnutools and gcc's gnutools
Currently included:
* detection and checking of host and target compiler (gcc/g++)
* checking if target gnutools are in path
* checking if <target>-gcc -specs works (autodisabling gcc28 if not)
* checking if <target>-gcc -pipe works
Todo :
* *posix.cfg files are not yet adapted => The hard-coded paths for these
systems are still in use.
* Check if the host compiler $CC is properly propagated to the Makefiles (I
doubt it, but this should not matter)
* Check if rtems' generic tools still work properly (It looks like, but who
knows)
* Integrate CXX support into default.cfg or gcc-target-default.cfg (It looks
like C++ support is only used by posix BSPs)
* Automatically handle RANLIB/MKLIB for targets
* Plenty ... (:-)
Open problems:
* Untested for non-gcc compatible host and target compilers. This should be
no problem if the tools are named follow gnutool's naming convention and are
included in $PATH while running configure.
* Intentionally using different tools than that gcc has been configured for,
e.g. use a different assembler ? This should be still possible if
XX_FOR_TARGET is hard-coded into custom/*.cfg. I don't see why anybody
should want to do this, but who knows?
I have tested this version on linux and solaris hosts, with gcc's
directories mounted at weird non-standard mount points, using egcs
(linux/sh-rtemscoff), gcc-2.7.2.2 using native tools (solaris), gcc-2.7.2.3
w/ gnutools (solaris/linux). I don't expect it to break anything, but of
cause I can't promise it. It will break most/all *-posix.cfg configuration
almost for certain, but not more as rtems' current *posix.cfg configurations
already do (hard-coded configurations).
I am not sure if this is ready to be included into the next snapshot or not.
Perhaps you might try this on your systems and if it you don't notice
serious bugs you might put it into the snapshot for public testing (I don't
like this, but I don't see another possiblity to test generality).
I enclose a patch for configure.in and some configuration files which
comprizes fixes for all items mentioned except of #3 . Don't forget to run
"aclocal -I aclocal; autoconf;" after applying the patch (:-).
Yep, I have a bunch of bug-fixes and additions pending (Yet another monster
patch, ... I can hear you scream :-).
1) configure.in : one AC_CONFIG_HEADER(...) line too much.
2) configure.in: gcc28 support is enabled by default, i.e. if no
--enable-gcc28 option is passed on the command line. I am not sure if this
is intentional.
IMO, AC_ARG_ENABLE for --enable-gcc28 should look like:
AC_ARG_ENABLE(gcc28, \
[ --enable-gcc28 enable use of gcc 2.8.x features], \
[case "${enableval}" in
yes) RTEMS_USE_GCC272=no ;;
no) RTEMS_USE_GCC272=yes ;;
*) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for gcc-28 option) ;;
esac],[RTEMS_USE_GCC272=yes])
3) At the end of c/src/exec/score/cpu/m68k/m68k.h
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
>
> #endif /* !ASM */
in my opinion these two statements should be swapped:
> #endif /* !ASM */
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> }
> #endif
I didn't try to compile for m68k, but does't this give an error? Is it
compensated somewhere else - or didn't I look carefully enough?
5) configure.in: --enable-cpp should probably be renamed to --enable-cxx, as
gnu-programs use "cxx" to specify C++ specific configure options, while cpp
is used for the preprocessor (e.g egcs uses --with-cxx-includedir, autoconf
internally uses $CXX),
6) The macro files from aclocal/*.m4 contain the buggy sed-rules formerly
contained in aclocal..m4, i.e. the sed/sort-bug fix to aclocal.m4 didn't
make it to aclocal/*.m4. I think I should feel guilty for that - Obviously I
submitted the contents of an old aclocal-directory last time. - Sorry.
7) For sh-rtems, we currently need to add additional managers to
MANAGERS_REQUIRED (from inside of custom/*.cfg). Currently MANAGERS_REQUIRED
is defined in make/compilers/*.cfg. This seems to prevent overriding
MANAGERS_REQUIRED from custom/*.cfg files - Obviously the files are included
in such a way that the settings from compilers/*cfg always override settings
from custom/*.cfg files.
Furthermore, I think, defining MANAGERS_* inside gcc-<target>.cfg files is
not correct - MANAGERS are not gcc-variant-dependent, but depend
on targets/bsps and therefore should be defined in a bsp/target dependent
file, e.g. in custom/*.cfg or target.cfg.in.
I think defining default settings for MANAGERS* in custom/default.cfg could
be an appropriate location. But this requires all custom/*.cfg files to
include default.cfg, which *-posix.cfg files don't seem to do.
Therefore I would like propose to move MANAGERS* to target.cfg.in - they are
included by all custom/*.cfg files. Perhaps we/you should use this
opportunity to merge parts from custom/default.cfg into target.cfg.in. This
ensures to have the setting included once per target makefile and will open
the opportunity to have autoconf doing additional work on
bsp-configurations.
Peanuts sofar, ... but here it comes ... (:-)
8) I am preparing a major enhancement to autoconf support for
gnutools/compilers. It is not yet finished, but usable and I'll therefore
attach a preliminary version to this mail.
Motivation:
* Fix problems with --enable-gcc28, if target-cc is not gcc28 compatible
* Fix -pipe problems
* Fix problems with hard-coded paths in configuration files (esp. posix)
* Fix consistency problems with explictly given gnutools and gcc's gnutools
Currently included:
* detection and checking of host and target compiler (gcc/g++)
* checking if target gnutools are in path
* checking if <target>-gcc -specs works (autodisabling gcc28 if not)
* checking if <target>-gcc -pipe works
Todo :
* *posix.cfg files are not yet adapted => The hard-coded paths for these
systems are still in use.
* Check if the host compiler $CC is properly propagated to the Makefiles (I
doubt it, but this should not matter)
* Check if rtems' generic tools still work properly (It looks like, but who
knows)
* Integrate CXX support into default.cfg or gcc-target-default.cfg (It looks
like C++ support is only used by posix BSPs)
* Automatically handle RANLIB/MKLIB for targets
* Plenty ... (:-)
Open problems:
* Untested for non-gcc compatible host and target compilers. This should be
no problem if the tools are named follow gnutool's naming convention and are
included in $PATH while running configure.
* Intentionally using different tools than that gcc has been configured for,
e.g. use a different assembler ? This should be still possible if
XX_FOR_TARGET is hard-coded into custom/*.cfg. I don't see why anybody
should want to do this, but who knows?
I have tested this version on linux and solaris hosts, with gcc's
directories mounted at weird non-standard mount points, using egcs
(linux/sh-rtemscoff), gcc-2.7.2.2 using native tools (solaris), gcc-2.7.2.3
w/ gnutools (solaris/linux). I don't expect it to break anything, but of
cause I can't promise it. It will break most/all *-posix.cfg configuration
almost for certain, but not more as rtems' current *posix.cfg configurations
already do (hard-coded configurations).
I am not sure if this is ready to be included into the next snapshot or not.
Perhaps you might try this on your systems and if it you don't notice
serious bugs you might put it into the snapshot for public testing (I don't
like this, but I don't see another possiblity to test generality).
I enclose a patch for configure.in and some configuration files which
comprizes fixes for all items mentioned except of #3 . Don't forget to run
"aclocal -I aclocal; autoconf;" after applying the patch (:-).
Here is the result of my nightly work to get RTEMS_ROOT=$srcdir working
with different shells and relative/absolute paths.
What I did is relatively simple in principle:
Instead of setting RTEMS_ROOT in configure.in and then let configure
substitute @RTEMS_ROOT@ inside the Makefiles, I now let each Makefile
set RTEMS_ROOT from each Makefile's @top_srcdir@ value.
The difference is subtile, but with enormous side effects:
- If RTEMS_ROOT is set in configure, then the same single value will be
propagated to all Makefiles. This breaks using relative paths, as the
relative path to the root of the source tree is used inside of all
subdirectory Makefiles.
- Now each Makefile.in sets RTEMS_ROOT = @top_srcdir@. top_srcdir is
computed individually by configure for each single Makefile.in, hereby
receiving the correct value, no matter if relative or absolute paths are
used.
To get this working, I needed to remove setting RTEMS_ROOT from
target.cfg.in, because this overrides the value of RTEMS_ROOT from each
individual Makefile.
Furthermore, I removed RTEMS_CUSTOM from the Makefiles and replaced all
"include $(RTEMS_CUSTOM)" directives with"include
$(RTEMS_ROOT)/make/custom/$(RTEMS_BSP)". Perhaps you don't like this,
but I think, to have one variable less is clearer and easier to
understand than having several variables refering to the next one.
I enclose a small patch to this mail, which
- fixes the config.h problem (to finally clearify misunderstands)
- removes assignment/subsitution of RTEMS_ROOT from configure.in
- contains a workaround for the application Makefile's RTEMS_ROOT
problem (reported by Eric)
- removes some unused lines from the toplevel Makefile.in
- removes assignment of RTEMS_ROOT from make/target.cfg.in
