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Re: Bug#728388: ITP: gcc-arm-none-eabi -- GCC cross compiler for ARM Cortex-A/R/M processors



Agustin Henze <tin@debian.org> writes:

> * Only C language support. Do you disable c++ for some reason?
> * Link time optimization disabled. Why?

I wasn't going to test either of these, and I don't like shipping stuff
that I can't test. If you're capable of enabling these and doing some
testing, that'd be great.

> Disadvantages
> * It's delivered without any prebuilt libc. You can't build a project "out of
> the box".

I'm currently using pdclib, which is kinda a disaster, but at least easy
to build. I don't really want to encourage people to use that. Getting
newlib built for this environment is definitely possible, but I haven't
had a chance to work that out. It'd be separately packaged in any case,
as I don't want to force the choice of libc on the users.

I doubt I'll have time to work on newlib before the end of the year at
this rate though; it's definitely something I'd like to see happen.

> * It's a lot of work maintain a toolchain working well. Therefore maintain in a
> good shape the package applying some patches "by hand" can become in a
> hard work.

Yup. The patch sequence is very small at present, and I'm hoping that
the CPU-specific patches are upstream by the next time I need to package
this for debian. The goal is to have *zero* patches in all of these
packages, and we're actually pretty close.

> I'll close the ITPs that I've created. If you are agree, we can follow the
> discussion in debian-cross.

Sounds good. As is my general practice, I don't like to work beyond my
ability to test or deploy, so I've packaged only what I'm actively
using. Having other people help out by adding the bits they want would
be perfect from my perspective.

-keith

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