On 10/31/2013 04:00 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > I don't think this is a good idea to package this toolchain another time. > Please contact Keith Packard who is doing the same thing, but based on GCC > 4.8. Why using GCC 4.7 as a base when even the launchpad projects states that > the main focus of development is 4.8? I didn't know that Keith Packard is doing the same. This is a great new! I've chosen GCC 4.7 because they haven't made any release with 4.8 yet. They are working on it and they have plans to make the release gcc 4.8 based on 2013-12-31. @Keith I was in your talk when you mentioned about summon-arm-toolchain (I packaged this project some time ago, http://sat.debian.org.ar/blog/howto-install-sat.html) and I thought wow another guy with the same problem... I believe that debian needs to have some toolchain for ARM in its archive and gcc-arm-embedded is maintained by people that work on developing GNU Tool chain for ARM embedded processors inside of ARM ltd. The prebuilt libraries delivered are so great! (newlib and newlib-nano). They test the toolchain against many boards, quoting the release.txt file: * Tested on a variety of Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4/A9 boards * Tested on an internal simulator for Cortex-R4 * Tested on Qemu I haven't seen another toolchain so tested and so close to ARM developers yet. So I think that, it's the indicated to be in the debian archive. What do you think about it? -- TiN
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