I use Fedora FEL for the prepackaged gEDA suite. Recently, I needed to compile C code for an embedded ARM processor, the Cortex-M3. While FEL/Fedoras Extra ships with an *arm-gp2x* tool chain, and another for *avr* it does not have an *arm-elf* toolchain.
It was fairly easy to modify the avr-gdb.spec, avr-gcc.spec and avr-binutils.spec files found online from the Fedora public build CVS (eg. at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/avr-gdb/F-11/ ) to work for arm-elf, then build RPMs using rpmbuild. I removed a few avr specific patches, and upgraded binutils version to a later release to produce valid code for the cortex architecture (there were some fixes to the ARM call veneers in the last 12 months). These packages contain an arm-elf-gcc which accepts "-mcpu=cortex-m3 -mthumb" arguments.
It seems worthwhile to submit these SPEC files for consideration for the FEL repositories. It would be great next time to have this pre-packaged, working on the assumption FEL might be more appropriate than Fedora Extras to carry them.
The SPEC files (and FC11 RPMs) are on my blog at www.shucksmith.co.uk [1]. I would be happy to add them to the FEL CVS and look after keeping the packages building if this is an option. While I have no connection to either the gcc/gdb/binutils developers or FEL, I would still like to try and maintain them.
Chris
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