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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:22:02 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:32:02 +1000 Neil Brown wrote:

> On Thursday October 19, grant_lkml@dodo.com.au wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:26:00 +0100, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > >Folks, seriously, please run sparse after changes; it's a simple matter of
> > >make C=2 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ fs/nfs*/; nothing tricky and it saves a lot
> > >of potential PITA...
> > 
> > grant@sempro:~/linux/linux-2.6.19-rc2a$ make C=2 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ fs/nfs*/;
> >   CHK     include/linux/version.h
> >   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
> >   CHECK   scripts/mod/empty.c
> > /bin/sh: sparse: command not found
> > make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 127
> > make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
> > make: *** [scripts] Error 2
> > 
> > What sparse?  Pointer please?  Hell of a keyword to search for :(
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Grant.
> 
> git clone  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git
> cd sparse
> make
> make install
> 
> 
> Of course you need git first ... not "GNU Interactive Tools", but
> Linus' SCM.  Most distros have it.

another easy way to get sparse is to grab the latest tarball
snapshot from http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/
then
make; make install  # installs into ~/bin, no root required


---
~Randy