Changeset ebf8a1f in rtems-source-builder for source-builder

Timestamp:
07/16/13 00:02:41 (11 years ago)
Author:
Chris Johns <chrisj@…>
Branches:
4.10, 4.11, 4.9, 5, master
Children:
1acb44a
Parents:
c2effc1
Message:

Automtically build the Autotools to bootstrap RTEMS.

This changes adds support to build the autotools if the host installed
version is not a suitable version. Autoconf and automake have hard coded
references to the install prefix and host tools and this makes it impossible
to relocate, that is use in any path other than the install prefix. To
bootstrap automake you need to first build a suitable autoconf and with that
you can built automake for the install prefix. The other complication is
not referencing the install prefix in the path when building in the RSB.
Having the install prefix in the path can result in strange issues appearing
such as gcc using a new assembler feature not present in an older assember
installed under the install prefix.

The process is to build the autotools using an install prefix to an
internal path inside the RSB temporary path and to use that autoconf
to build the version for the install prefix. The internal install
prefix version is also used to bootstrap RTEMS.

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