Does arm-none-eabi-gcc provide gdb, newlib, binutils?
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arm-none-eabi toolchain version 14 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?
If i understand you correctly, a more detailed question is:
What configure options did 'GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain' developers used when building newlib libraries shipped in gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q2-update-linux.tar.bz2 archive?
These ones for newlib:
--target=arm-none-eabi --enable-newlib-io-long-long --enable-newlib-register-fini --enable-newlib-retargetable-locking --disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls --disable-nls
And these ones for newlib-nano:
--target=arm-none-eabi --enable-newlib-reent-small --disable-newlib-fvwrite-in-streamio --disable-newlib-fseek-optimization --disable-newlib-wide-orient --enable-newlib-nano-malloc --disable-newlib-unbuf-stream-opt --enable-lite-exit --enable-newlib-global-atexit --enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io --disable-nls
How I got it? Let's walk through the process:
These packages are build on launchpad, where from you find all the builds that took place on lanuchpad. I picked gcc-arm-none-eabi 6-2017q2-1 from 2017-10-24. There i can find the buildlog. I grepped the buildlog with | grep "^+ " | grep "configure " | grep 'src/newlib' and i was left with:
+ /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/newlib/configure --target=arm-none-eabi --prefix=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/install-native --infodir=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/install-native/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/info --mandir=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/install-native/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/man --htmldir=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/install-native/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/html --pdfdir=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/install-native/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/pdf --enable-newlib-io-long-long --enable-newlib-register-fini --enable-newlib-retargetable-locking --disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls --disable-nls
+ /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/newlib/configure --target=arm-none-eabi --prefix=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/build-native/target-libs --disable-newlib-supplied-syscalls --enable-newlib-reent-small --disable-newlib-fvwrite-in-streamio --disable-newlib-fseek-optimization --disable-newlib-wide-orient --enable-newlib-nano-malloc --disable-newlib-unbuf-stream-opt --enable-lite-exit --enable-newlib-global-atexit --enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io --disable-nls
A bit of Sherlock Holmes and i deduced that the second line is newlib configured to build as newlib-nano (--enable-newlib-reent-small), the first is newlib configured to build as full newlib.
To answer your topic question, to recompile newlib and newlib-nano the same way pass the options I have posted above to newlib ./configure script.
Hints about how the compiler was configured are found in:
$COMPILER_PATH/arm-none-eabi/include/newlib.h$COMPILER_PATH/arm-none-eabi/include/newlib-nano/newlib.h
The #defines there have a close correspondence to the options that were passed to 'configure', when newlib was built.