Re: [avr-libc-dev] Need new avr-libc release

[Georg-Johann Lay]

Sivanupandi, Pitchumani schrieb:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Georg-Johann Lay [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: 25 January 2016 21:56
> > To: Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden>; address@hidden;
> > Sivanupandi, Pitchumani <address@hidden>; Selvaraj,
> > Senthil_Kumar <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] Need new avr-libc release
> >
> > Joerg Wunsch schrieb:
> > > As Sivanupandi, Pitchumani wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can you make a new release?
> > > I can give it a try, to see whether "make distcheck" works out of the
> > > box.
> > As a quick fix, it could be pointed out on AVR-LibC's front page that
> > 1.8.1 won't work with GCC v5.2+ and at least SVN trunk xyzw is needed with
> > GCC v5.2+.
> >
> > FYI, GCC v5.0 and v5.1 won't work and should not be used.
>
> Current trunk should work with GCC v5.x or later. It auto detects the gcc
> version and builds accordingly.
>
> Ref: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?44869

The point is that v5.1 itself is broken, namely the new specs stuff.

v5.2+ uses a different directory layout to fix the problems, and 
avr-libc adjusted to the new layout.  But the problem with v5.1 was 
inherently due to the old directory layout, and whatever avr-libc does 
cannot work around these problems of v5.1 (even worse for v5.0).

I was quite surprised back then when I saw that effort was put into 
avr-libc just to make it work together with a compiler that was known to 
be broken...

> http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=avr-libc&revision=2475
>
> Regards,
> Pitchumani