RTEMS 4.9.5 On-Line Library

Unarchiving the Tools

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4.2.2: Unarchiving the Tools

NOTE: This step is required if building any of the tools without using RPM. It is NOT required if using the procedure described in Using RPM to Build Tools. This section describes the process of unarchiving the tools that comprise an RTEMS toolset.

GNU source distributions are archived using tar and compressed using either gzip or bzip. If compressed with gzip, the extension .gz is used. If compressed with bzip, the extension .bz2 is used.

While in the tools directory, unpack the compressed tar files using the appropriate command based upon the compression program used.

cd tools
tar xzf ../archive/TOOLNAME.tar.gz  # for gzip'ed tools
tar xjf ../archive/TOOLNAME.tar.bz2 # for bzip'ed tools

Assuming you are building a complete toolset, after all of the the compressed tar files have been unpacked using the appropriate commands, the following directories will have been created under tools.

autoconf-<VERSION>
automake-<VERSION>
binutils-<VERSION>
gcc-<VERSION>
binutils-<VERSION>
gdb-<VERSION>

The tree should look something like the following figure:

/whatever/prefix/you/choose/
        archive/
          variable tarballs
          variable patches
        tools/
          various tool source trees

Getting Started with RTEMS