Re: [PATCH] cross-sparse

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:33:38 +0200 Herbert Poetzl wrote:

| On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:27:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
| > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
| > > 
| > > I wanted to give sparse a try on m68k, and noticed the current 
| > > infrastructure doesn't handle cross-compilation (no sane m68k 
| > > people compile kernels natively anymore, unless they run a 
| > > Debian autobuilder ;-).
| > > 
| > > After hacking the include paths in the sparse sources, installing 
| > > the resulting binary as m68k-linux-sparse, and applying the 
| > > following patch, it seems to work fine!
| > 
| > Hmm.. It does make sense, but at the same time, sparse isn't even really 
| > supposed to _care_ about the architecture. Especially not for a kernel 
| > build.
| 
| apologies for assasinating this thread ...
| 
| I did an 'extensive' search with google (you do not want 
| to know how many hits you get with 'sparse') and read 
| most postings on the sparse mailinglist (linux-sparse),
| found the freshmeat project pointing me to the 'new url'
| http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/sparse/ where I can
| download 'sparse-2003-11-27.tar.gz', then found out that
| there should be a maintained (up to date) version of it at 
| 
|    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/
| 
| but what I find there, seems of no use to me ...
| (I'm no bitkeeper person) so I'm still looking for an url
| where I can get a recent .tar to install that beast.
| 
| can anybody point me in the right direction, please?

sure, get a tarball from here:
  http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/bitkeeper/sparse/

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~Randy