Re: [PATCH] cross-sparse

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

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?

TIA,
Herbert

> Which part breaks when not just using the native sparse? As far as I know, 
> a kernel build should use all-kernel header files, with the exception of 
> "stdarg.h" which I thought was also architecture-independent (but hey, 
> maybe I'm just a retard, and am wrong).
> 
> 		Linus
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