[linuxsh-shmedia-dev] Latest version of SH5-Linux Toolchain Sources Availible (gcc, binutils, glibc)

[Sean M. <Sea...@su...>]

Hi,

	Several people have been enquiring about a suitable GCC toolchain 
for building SH-5 Linux kernels an applications.  I have decided to make 
available on our external FTP site the toolchain that I am using, as a 
freely downloadable set of sources.

	This toolchain has some significant improvements, and several
bug-fixes over previous versions. Specifically, all problems with sharable
libraries are now resolved, that is, there are no known DLL issues with
these files.

	The tarballs are available in:

	ftp://ftp.uk.superh.com/pub/SuperH-GNU/Barcelona-20030310

	% ls -l
	-r--r--r--   14343634 Mar  7 14:51 sh5linux-source-SH5LINUX-BINUTILS-SS20030206-B1.tar.gz
	-r--r--r--   17342899 Mar 10 10:14 sh5linux-source-SH5LINUX-GLIBC-2.2.5-B4.tar.gz
	-r--r--r--   15873709 Mar  7 15:18 sh5linux-source-SH5LINUX-SH5GCC-CVS20020529.1800-B6.tar.gz

	% md5sum *
	8b734f7f0aa7c7e2893ed84e9869cd54  sh5linux-source-SH5LINUX-BINUTILS-SS20030206-B1.tar.gz
	830df21d2c7a2b8bbc8b2067bb2c9dfa  sh5linux-source-SH5LINUX-GLIBC-2.2.5-B4.tar.gz
	145b55c6496c3b1715597a3b65422516  sh5linux-source-SH5LINUX-SH5GCC-CVS20020529.1800-B6.tar.gz

	Gcc is based on a CVS snapshot of May last year, patched to the
3.2.1 level. Binutils is based on SS20030206, and GLIBC is based on the
2.2.5 release. The name Barcelona is the internal codename SuperH uses
for the SH-5 Linux toolchain.

	The sources for the above toolchain have been built on a RedHat
7.2 x86 based system, and this cross-toolchain, has been used to build the
native toolchain, which has has natively built components such as "make"
for SH-5 Linux. Right now, we are trying to get the native toolchain
to bootstrap itself, and building all the myriad of components that GCC
requires - the toolchain has proven to be very stable thus far!

	If anyone is interested in obtaining the binary toolchain that I
am using, then please let me know and I will make that available as well.
If anyone finds any problems with toolchain, then please let me know.


	Regards,
		Sean

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