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Re: Getting patches integrated into the brickos?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:03:20 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Dominic Clifton wrote:
> I've been trying to build a cross compiler and brick-os on my machine for a
> day now and well, what can I say except that all the how-to's and
> instructions for building brick-os seem to be either wrong, bad or out of
> date. (e.g. they talk about very old versions of gcc and binutils and refer
> to brickos as legOS still!)
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> I think I've sucessfully managed to build a cross compiler and brick os, but
> man was it painful trying to figure out what I needed to do it! (I think I
> owe google some money for all the searching I had to do! :D) I'll test it
> on my rcx soon but as there were no errors during the build
> (eventually) i think it should be ok.
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> I will update the howto and will update the cygwin shell script and provide
> information regarding some patches that are required to enable it to be
> compiled using gcc > 3.2 and binutils 2.16 but how do:
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> a) we get these patches (created by debian users) integrated into brick-os
> itself.
> b) I get an updated howto onto the brickos site.
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> Personally I think the brickos site on sourceforge should have a wiki where
> these instructions should live so that they can be updated as needed by
> anyone who has the time.
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> Who can setup a wiki there? Anyone got some time to go though some of the
> info on the site and update it?
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> btw, see my comments on here for more info about the patches:
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> http://marc.abramowitz.info/archives/2006/01/07/building-brickos-tools-on-mac-os-x/#comment-70727
Hi Dom,
As far as I know, all the sourceforge web pages are held in the CVS repository,
as are the sources. Only people with developer permission on the project have
commit access to CVS - you have to contact the project admins to request that
permission. Once you have commit access you can commit changes using the
instructions here: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=58151
It isn't a very active project - not much has been updated in the last 2 years.
HTH
ROSCO
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