From 50ef983b148c56cefecdcbcf6c96bec114f92b31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Wilson Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:36:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document Software Collection devtools package for Centos and RHEL. --- README.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8cf1c47b..9de9e0b1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -108,6 +108,15 @@ is case-sensitive. A build on a case-insensitive filesystem will fail when building glibc because \*.os and \*.oS files will clobber each other during the build eventually resulting in confusing link errors. +Centos (and RHEL) provide old GNU tools versions that may be too old to build +a RISC-V toolchain. There is an alternate toolset provided that includes +current versions of the GNU tools. This is the devtoolset provided as part +of the Software Collection service. For more info, see the +[devtoolset-7](https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-7/) +URL. There are various versions of the devtoolset that are available, so you +can also try other versions of it, but we have at least one report that +devtoolset-7 works. + ### Advanced Options There are a number of additional options that may be passed to