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Re: [PATCH] Update nvptx newlib installation requirements


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Cesar Philippidis
<cesar@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On 04/24/2018 12:10 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
>
>> That's great news!  Note that we usually keep copies of build dependences at
>> ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/ and there's currently no nvptx newlib
>> variant there.  Maybe you can prepare a tarball that's ready to plug into gcc
>> sources with the nvptx support included?
>
> How do I go about uploading tarball to that ftp server?

Anybody with privileges (like me...) can put it there.

> I could be mistaken, but I think that GCC's build system would need to
> be taught how to build nvptx-tools automatically like newlib. And that's
> likely a stage 1 task. But in the meantime, having tarballs for the
> build dependencies would be nice.

Yes.  Note that dependences that need to be installed are fine as well,
it is after all the usual mode of operation.

>> Otherwise OK.
>>
>> Btw, can you also update the GCC wiki with regarding to this change?
>
> Done. I added a new 'Build Dependencies' section to the nvptx wiki:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/nvptx
>
> Cesar


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