Tagging release 1.7.0

1.7: create maintenance branch, update version to 1.7.0

scripts/mk-release: pretty-up the per-author stats

Reverse sort first by number of changesets, then sort alphabetically
on the author's names.

docs: update the known issues

samples: update

debug/gdb: install tic in the buildtools directory

'tic' is a build tool, its place is in the buildtools
directory, not in the toolchain's bin directory.

debug/gdb: be less verbose during the ncurses build

scripts: don't set LD_PRELOAD with static companion libraries

When cpmpanion libraries are built statically, it is useless to set
LD_PRELOAD. Worse, it might break the build in some corner cases.

docs: update the section about the wrapper

The wrapper is no longer needed when building
non-shared companion libraries. Document that.

arch/sh: fix type in variant handling

scripts/savesample: be silent when checking for .config file

1.6: update version to 1.6.2+hg

Tagging release 1.6.2

1.6: update version to 1.6.2

cc/gcc: fix cc symlink when executables have an extension

When building a cross-compiler for a host which depends
on file extensions the symlink for cc was not installed correctly

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>
[Yann E. MORIN: style fixes, enhancements, code prettying]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
(transplanted from 214c64ba8b21db15f610eca886fb194a6675e40c)

libc/newlib: don't do // downloads

The newlib FTP site does not like // downloads, and quickly
blocks the IP from the downloader.

Override the number of chunks when downloading newlib.

libc/glibc: fix kernel version check

Since we log the test strings, it is no longer possible to call
the CT_Test* functions from sub-functions that print results to
their stdout.

scripts: also prepare include symlink to sysroot/include

scripts: check g++ only for host

g++ is only needed when building additonal libs on the HOST,
so check wheter g++ is available for the HOST compiler only

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>
[Yann E. MORIN: fix space damage]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

cc/gcc: use proper host compiler for canadian bare-metal

While compiling a canadian toolchain for host=mingw32, build=linux,
target=m68k-elf the build fails because in this step of the gcc build
the Host compiler is used in this stage with the build-flags for the
build system. This results in an error where the header <sys/wait.h>
cannot be found.
This problem happens at least in the GCC-4.3.x and GCC-4.4.x range.

This is solved by passing the proper compilers on the Make cmd-line

Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>

cc/gcc: allow building a canadian bare-metal compiler

Previous addition of the canadian cross compiler did not allow
to build a baremetal only variant, no reason why this is not
allowed

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>

cc/gcc: fix cc symlink when executables have an extension

When building a cross-compiler for a host which depends
on file extensions the symlink for cc was not installed correctly

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>
[Yann E. MORIN: style fixes, enhancements, code prettying]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

libc/newlib: the m68k processor does not like unaligned

Disable unaligned access at least for mcpu32, m68010 and m68020.
These processors certainly do not like unaligned accesses.

Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>
(transplanted from faade25219ed565993b7b26357991d3130697515)

complibs/mpfr: fix extract

With MPFR 2.4.2, autoreconf needs to be run as well.
(transplanted from b376baa43a50e178915f8d5dac40d9408bf2e962)

cc/gcc: add 4.5.0

cc/gcc: add support for 4.5.0 or later versions

starting with 4.5.0, gcc requires libelf.

complibs/libelf: remove old versions

Those old versions are not suitable for use by gcc.

complibs/libelf: enable the host build

Host libelf is required by gcc-4.5.0

complibs/libelf: build target libelf in its own directory

debug/gdb: remove insight

Insight seems to be very slow to follow up on mainstreram gdb.
Latest snapshots are more than 6 months old.

Moreover, I don't have time to maintain insight support in crosstool-NG;
and, because I don't use it, I am unable to find any breakage.

debug/gdb: reorder options in the menuconfig

debug/gdb: allow static build with complibs

It is now possible to built static versions of the companion libraries,
so we can now build a static cross-gdb using the complibs.

scripts: don't print the build system guess warning

complibs/gmp: mark 5.0.1 as being experimental

MPFR can't cope with GMP > 4.x.y so hide it behind EXPERIMENTAL
until we fix MPFR

samples: add Blackfin sample

Add basic support for the Blackfin architecture

For uClibc, the name of the Blackfin architecture is 'bfin'. Actually,
the naming of the architecture is quite messy: for toolchain tuples
and uClibc, it's bfin, but for the kernel, it's blackfin. We've
arbitraly choosen to name it "blackfin" in Crosstool-NG.

Add Blackfin-related uClibc patch to fix a build failure related to
fork() being used in unistd/daemon.c.

Yann E. MORIN:
Apply the patch to the kernel/linux build script to use 'linux'
in the noMMU tuples. See:
http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2010-04/msg00010.html

scripts/functions: log the test strings

scripts/functions: compress with gzip level 3, as stated in the documentation

Thanks to Bruno Tarquini <btarquini@gmail.com> for the report.

scripts/functions: add a save/restore handler

Saving and restoring the steps requires saving/restoring multiple
directories. Depending on the configuration, some may not exist.

Add a wrapper that checks before creating/extracting the tarballs.

scripts/functions: fix CT_Patch again

Merge.

Revert 3ea4e6f7b85f: Force autoreconf for mpfr

It breaks on my machine. Revert until we find the exact cause leading to
the initial patch, and we come up with a patch that properly fixes it.

scripts/functions: fix CT_Patch

libc/newlib: the m68k processor does not like unaligned

Disable unaligned access at least for mcpu32, m68010 and m68020.
These processors certainly do not like unaligned accesses.

Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>

scripts/functions: make CT_Patch dumber

It is the responsibility of the caller to split the package name from
its version. It already knows that.

libc/newlib: only compute version string, not full filename

debug/gdb: remove snapshot version

cc/gcc: add bugurl and compiler version to core gcc compiler

When building for bare-metal the core-gcc compiler is delivered
as final compiler, so the version info and bugurl is useful
in the core compiler as well.

Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>

binutils: allow choice for elf format when building bare-metal cross compiler

When building a baremetal cross compiler I want to be able to select
the elf format and not be forced to build the elf2flt package.

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>
[Yann E. MORIN: tweak the commit message]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

scripts: prevent trailing - in CT_TARGET

Not all target tuples consist of an VENDOR, KERNEL and SYSTEM part, build up the
tuple in such a way to no extra or trailing dashes are added to CT_TARGET

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>

[CT-NG:patch 05/19] Force autoreconf for mpfr

In some exotic case the autoreconf step of mpfr is not executed (correctly)
leaving an incorrect version number for libtool in the configure script.

After extracting the sources files, force autoreconf to be executed.

Signed-off-by: Bart vdr. Meulen <bartvdrmeulen@gmail.com>

complibs: save directory with static complibs for stop/restart

complibs: don't install in toolchain dir when built as static

complibs: allow either static or shared build

complibs: build static libraries

config: replace COMP_LIBS with COMPLIBS

complibs/mpfr: fix extract

With MPFR 2.4.2, autoreconf needs to be run as well.

scripts: add script to publish patches

This script creates the patches for an existing version.

Re-enable the FD_PIC ELF configuration option

Blackfin uses FD_PIC ELF format to provide shared libraries on a
non-MMU architecture.

Fix the uClibc clean-up-O_CLOEXEC-handling patch

In the Blackfin case (untested until now), this patch was lacking a
leading / at the end of a comment.