From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6250 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2009 14:09:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 6012 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Feb 2009 14:09:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC,TVD_RCVD_IP X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from 137-67-76-76.skybeam.com (HELO mail.chez-thomas.org) (76.76.67.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:09:20 +0000 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id 806563B5290C; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:09:05 -0700 (MST) Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338C83B528C0; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:09:05 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <49A2AE01.5020905@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:09:00 -0000 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Dallaway CC: eCos Maintainers Subject: Re: Downloading prebuilt tools References: <49A29F7B.7010207@mlbassoc.com> <49A2AACD.8040709@dallaway.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <49A2AACD.8040709@dallaway.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-02/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 John Dallaway wrote: > Hi Gary > > Gary Thomas wrote: > >> Looking at the "Downloading and Installing eCos" page (aka >> "Getting Started"): http://ecos.sourceware.org/getstart.html, >> I see offers of a wide set of prebuilt toolchains, but no >> links to help download them. I think this would be useful to >> add to the table of supported platforms. For example (take >> my case) where one has downloaded eCos for a particular environment >> and now wants to test it on another, there's no clear way to >> go fetch the tools... > > I assume you're aware that the ecos-install.tcl script will fetch the > pre-built tools. To be clear, are you saying that this is not as obvious > as it should be, or that the "tools only" switch should be advertised, > or that it would be useful to have a direct link to the ftp site for > people who don't want to use the installer? The latter. In particular, what if someone (like me) already has the source repository, but only wants new tools? There's no way to figure out where they are, other than running through the ecos-install.tcl script. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------