Error during building the Toolchain

It's amazing what you'll find when you scour the forums...

I came across this thread: http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6959 (http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6959) which is something of a release note for the 20090730 release of the nios2-linux package. Further down the thread actris has a post saying...

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To compile 20090703 toolchain on a linux ubuntu 9.04 you need to do the followings :

- /nios2-linux/gcc3/gcc/collect.c line 1537 :

redir_handle = open (redir, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT);

needs to be rewrite as below

redir_handle = open (redir, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT,777);

- buffer overflow on nios2-linux-uclibc-ar

the toolchain need to be compiled with gcc4.2[/b]

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After modifying collect2.c (for some reason my file was named differently), installing gcc 4.2 (remember to re-direct the /usr/bin/gcc link!), and running a git clean, I was able to successfully compile.

Hopefully this info is helpful to people running Ubuntu 9.04 and having issues compiling!