From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17597 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2011 20:16:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 17185 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Nov 2011 20:16:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_SV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp10.smtpout.orange.fr (HELO smtp.smtpout.orange.fr) (80.12.242.132) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:15:49 +0000 Received: from treguer.localnet ([90.32.130.159]) by mwinf5d33 with ME id skFl1h00W3SVNb603kFlKw; Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:15:46 +0100 From: "Yann E. MORIN" To: crossgcc@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 1] Linux updates Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/3.1.0-treguer; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: =?utf-8?q?Beno=C3=AEt_TH=C3=89BAUDEAU?= References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201111032115.45029.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> Mailing-List: contact crossgcc-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Beno=C3=AEt, All, On Wednesday 02 November 2011 13:46:02 Beno=C3=AEt TH=C3=89BAUDEAU wrote: > Note that some older tarballs are still missing from kernel.org, especial= ly > for the longterm revisions. Indeed, that is an issue. However, there is nothing we can do in crosstool-NG as of now, due to the way crosstool-NG expects to get its sources. In the beginings, crosstool-NG was designed to build _production ready_ toolchains, so it meant using _releases_, not development snapshots. So use of a git/svn/whatever VCS was not provisioned. As eglibc is only distributed through the svn repository, a hack was made to shoehorn svn support in crosstool-NG. I consider this to be a hack for now. But I can see the point of also using development versions/snapshots for testign purposes. That's why I'd like to entirely review how crosstool-NG gets the sources. Alas, it's not that easy as it seems, if we want it to be done correctly. So, for the moment, the only way to use the long-term releases with crosstool-NG is to use git to prepare the tarballs, and put them where crosstool-NG can find them: git archive --prefix=3Dlinux-X.Y.Z vX.Y.Z |bzip2 >linux-X.Y.Z.tar.bz2 That's how I prepared some of the tarballs I use here... Regards, Yann E. MORIN. --=20 .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.----------------= ----. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspira= cy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ = | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is = no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspirac= y. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^----------------= ----' -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq