Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 6.0-1 released

A update release of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is available for download.

Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 6.0-1 new features and bug fixes:

• Time zone automatically set to system’s time zone.
• New advance-toolchain-at6.0-selinux rpm, which sets the correct labels for key files so the Advance Toolchain works when SELinux is enabled.

• New ldconfig wrapper (installed in /usr/sbin/) that wraps up the ldconfig of the system and all installed AT’s.

• GDB for remote debugging now included in the cross compiler.

• The following fixes included in GCC:
  • Fixes for DFP issues.
• The following fixes included in GDB:
  • Fix for “GDB unable to ‘step’ into a C/C++ function from a shared library on ppc64”.
  • Enable “signalinfo for Power”.
  • Fix “GDB disassemble for POWER6 and POWER7”.
• The following fixes included in OProfile:
  • Fix to address over-counting user context lost samples.
  • Fix to record samples from forked processes.

Complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available in the Release Notes file in the repositories below. If you are running Linux on a POWER7 system, I strongly recommend you to try the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 6.0-1.

Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 6.0-1 download links

Download RPMs and sources here:

• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/redhat/RHEL6/at6.0/
• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/suse/SLES_11/at6.0/

Compatibility RPMs are also available for RHEL5 and SLES10:

• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/redhat/RHEL5/at5.0/
• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/suse/SLES_10/at5.0/

For more information about the Advance Toolchain, please visit:

• The Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux documentation
• The PowerLinux Community

 

by Carlos Eduardo Seo

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