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Script no longer works for older version
When installing somewhat older arm toolchains, for example 2009q1-161, https://sourcery.mentor.com/GNUToolchain/release830, the script won't work. It's hard configured to use MAJOR.MINOR-REVISION, which doesn't correspond to the old version style of MAJOR-REVISION.
You could roll back to previous versions that targeted earlier builds. As-is the Makefile doesn't try to interpret anything from the versions to decide what patches to apply, so patches just target the latest version.
@jsnyder Thanks for the suggestion. My experience was that I had to go pretty far back in time. The concern is that at some point in the future there will be a necessary bugfix which will be rolled back when checking out historic code.
As an aside, it was difficult in the beginning to figure out that I needed to get the SOURCE_PACKAGE
and BIN_PACKAGE
values directly from the website URLs. Not sure what there is to be done about it, since it's probably a lot of effort to automate that task.