mbox series

[bug#66259,0/4] gnu: sdcc: Update to 4.3.0; other improvements.

Message ID cover.1695929761.git.simon@simonsouth.net
Headers show
Series gnu: sdcc: Update to 4.3.0; other improvements. | expand

Message

Simon South Sept. 28, 2023, 8:11 p.m. UTC 
This patch series updates SDCC, a C compiler suite that targets a number of
8-bit microcontroller families, to version 4.3.0.

It also tries to improve the package by

- Updating and gently reformatting its definition; and

- Embedding a reference to the MCS-51 simulator from the ucsim package, which
  is invoked by SDCC's debugger and should therefore always be present
  alongside it.  (Previously the debugger, sdcdb, would always fail with an
  error message if the user hadn't also installed μCsim.)

I've tested these changes on AArch64 and x86-64 and all appears well.  (I
_have_ seen some intermittent build failures on x86-64, but I'm assuming for
the moment this is something specific to my machine.)

--
Simon South
simon@simonsouth.net


Simon South (4):
  gnu: sdcc: Update package style.
  gnu: sdcc: Adjust format.
  gnu: sdcc: Embed absolute reference to μCsim.
  gnu: sdcc: Update to 4.3.0.

 gnu/packages/embedded.scm                     |  74 ++--
 .../patches/sdcc-disable-non-free-code.patch  | 364 ++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)


base-commit: 3963fa1a465708690cd1554d911613f1c92f5eef

Comments

Christopher Baines Sept. 30, 2023, 10:07 a.m. UTC | #1 
Simon South <simon@simonsouth.net> writes:

> This patch series updates SDCC, a C compiler suite that targets a number of
> 8-bit microcontroller families, to version 4.3.0.
>
> It also tries to improve the package by
>
> - Updating and gently reformatting its definition; and
>
> - Embedding a reference to the MCS-51 simulator from the ucsim package, which
>   is invoked by SDCC's debugger and should therefore always be present
>   alongside it.  (Previously the debugger, sdcdb, would always fail with an
>   error message if the user hadn't also installed μCsim.)
>
> I've tested these changes on AArch64 and x86-64 and all appears well.  (I
> _have_ seen some intermittent build failures on x86-64, but I'm assuming for
> the moment this is something specific to my machine.)

Thanks Simon, these patches look great. I've pushed them to master as
ee5de9cdf2e9d914638fcac8b5f25bdddfb73dfc.

Chris