crosstool-NG 1.5.0 is out

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello all!

I'm pleased to announce the release of crosstool-NG 1.5.0!

As usual, there has been quite a number of improvements, new features,
and bug fixes all around.

Most notably, gcc-4.4 is now supported; it's now possible to build
canadian-cross toolchains (experimental); the AVR32 architecture has
been added (experimental), as the first MMU-less arch, based on newlib.
Entries in the configuration has been re-ordered.

The list of samples has been updated, and has grown a few new entries.

This marks the end of the 1.4 maintenance branch, and the beginning
of the 1.5 maintenance branch.

The tarball and changelog can be found at the following URLs:
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-1.5.0.changelog
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-1.5.0.tar.bz2

The cumulative patches will be available at:
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/crosstool-ng/01-fixes/1.5.0

As a reminder, the home for crosstool-NG is:
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool

Crosstool-NG also has a Freshmeat page:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/crosstool-ng/

As always, comments and suggestions are most welcome!

Thank you to those who sent patches, code, or comments! If you are not
listed in docs/CREDITS and you think you should, please do yell at me,
you'll be added promptly!

Thanks for your attention,
Yann E. MORIN.

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[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello All!

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 18:56:37 Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Most notably, [...] the AVR32 architecture has
> been added (experimental), as the first MMU-less arch, based on newlib.

I hope a cosmic ray particle did impact the wrong neurone in my brain
when I wrote that, or I have only one option left: run & scream, waving
my hands above my head... :-)

Seriously, here are the real facts:
- avr32 has been included, as the first arch to use newlib (and newlib
  only), ie. it is bare-metal only for now, not sure a avr-linux-gnu
  toolchain would build...
- newlib has been included, but support is currently very tied to the
  avr32 stuff. Not sure what it'd take to cleanly separate it.
  Anyway, basic support is here. Use the Force, Luke...
- support for noMMU has been added, but no architecture is making use
  of it for now (there has been an out-of-tree microblaze attempt, but
  the patchset to gcc and binutils being so big, we decide it'd be best
  supported out-of-tree for now, I don't want to maintain that for now)
  so it is currently invisible, except in the code (grep for BOTH_MMU).

Also, the sample for the avr32 was defective. I've been tracking this
down for the past four days; it's fixed now, and a patch is available
at the usual place (as well as on the maintenance branch).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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