15.7. Building and Deploying Tool Binaries¶

If you wish to create and distribute your build or you want to archive a build you can create a tar file. We term this deploying a build. This is a more advanced method for binary packaging and installing of tools.

By default the RTEMS Source Builder installs the built packages directly and optionally it can also create a build set tar file or a package tar file per package built. The normal and default behaviour is to let the RTEMS Source Builder install the tools. The source will be downloaded, built, installed and cleaned up.

The tar files are created with the full build prefix present and if you follow the examples given in this documentation the path is absolute. This can cause problems if you are installing on a host you do not have super user or administrator rights on because the prefix path may references part you do not have write access too and tar will not extract the files. You can use the --strip-components option in tar if your host tar application supports it to remove the parts you do not have write access too or you may need to unpack the tar file somewhere and copy the file tree from the level you have write access from. Embedding the full prefix path in the tar files lets you know what the prefix is and is recommended. For example if /home/chris/development/rtems/4.11 is the prefix used you cannot change directory to the root (/) and untar the file because the /home is root access only. To install a tar file you have downloaded into your new machine’s Downloads directory in your home directoty you would enter:

$ cd /somewhere
$ tar --strip-components=3 -xjf \
      $HOME/Downloads/rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1.tar.bz2

A build set tar file is created by adding --bset-tar-file option to the sb-set-builder command:

$ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --log=l-sparc.txt \
         --prefix=$HOME/development/rtems/4.11 \
         --bset-tar-file \     <1>
         4.11/rtems-sparc
Source Builder - Set Builder, v0.2.0
Build Set: 4.11/rtems-sparc
config: expat-2.1.0-1.cfg
package: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
building: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
config: tools/rtems-binutils-2.22-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
config: tools/rtems-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
config: tools/rtems-gdb-7.5.1-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
installing: rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1 -> /home/chris/development/rtems/4.11 <2>
installing: rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1 -> /home/chris/development/rtems/4.11
installing: rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1 -> /home/chris/development/rtems/4.11
installing: rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1 -> /home/chris/development/rtems/4.11
tarball: tar/rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1.tar.bz2      <3>
cleaning: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
Build Set: Time 0:15:25.92873

You can also suppress installing the files using the --no-install option. This is useful if your prefix is not accessible, for example when building Canadian cross compiled tool sets:

$ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --log=l-sparc.txt \
            --prefix=$HOME/development/rtems/4.11 \
            --bset-tar-file \
            --no-install \      <1>
            4.11/rtems-sparc
Source Builder - Set Builder, v0.2.0
Build Set: 4.11/rtems-sparc
config: expat-2.1.0-1.cfg
package: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
building: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
config: tools/rtems-binutils-2.22-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
config: tools/rtems-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
config: tools/rtems-gdb-7.5.1-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
tarball: tar/rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1.tar.bz2    <2>
cleaning: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
Build Set: Time 0:14:11.721274
$ ls tar
rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1.tar.bz2

A package tar file can be created by adding the --pkg-tar-files to the sb-set-builder command. This creates a tar file per package built in the build set:

$ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --log=l-sparc.txt \
        --prefix=$HOME/development/rtems/4.11 \
        --bset-tar-file \
        --pkg-tar-files \        <1>
        --no-install 4.11/rtems-sparc
Source Builder - Set Builder, v0.2.0
Build Set: 4.11/rtems-sparc
config: expat-2.1.0-1.cfg
package: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
building: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
config: tools/rtems-binutils-2.22-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
config: tools/rtems-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
config: tools/rtems-gdb-7.5.1-1.cfg
package: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
building: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
tarball: tar/rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1.tar.bz2
cleaning: expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1
cleaning: sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1
Build Set: Time 0:14:37.658460
$ ls tar
expat-2.1.0-x86_64-freebsd9.1-1.tar.bz2           sparc-rtems4.11-binutils-2.22-1.tar.bz2
sparc-rtems4.11-gdb-7.5.1-1.tar.bz2 <2>           rtems-4.11-sparc-rtems4.11-1.tar.bz2 <3>
sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.7.2-newlib-1.20.0-1.tar.bz2