[JoelSherrill]

This isn't uncommon for an OS to provide its own tooling. This is how you get the GCC language runtimes tailored for the OS. We support C, C++, and Ada fully out of the box. Our current GCC should be tracking gcc 12.

Did you know that we provide a tool to build all tooling from source including application of patches? It's similar in concept to BSD ports. This gives users full source and the ability to put it under configuration control for long term projects.

[adrian_b]

I am glad to see that you are still well and working at RTEMS after so many years.

Several decades ago, when I was young and I have discovered RTEMS by chance, I have learned many useful things from its documentation, source code and tooling scripts. IIRC, I have also got some very helpful e-mail responses from you, to some of my newbie questions.

So I have always been grateful for your RTEMS work.

One of the useful things that I have learned then from the RTEMS scripts was precisely how to build my own customized toolset with binutils/gcc/gdb and so on, for cross-development for an embedded system target.

I have always done this, instead of attempting to use one of the pre-built but less suited for my purposes toolsets that can be found in various places, and it has always helped me a lot.