sparse checking

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 22.03.2007 07:18, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:15:17AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>  > Red Hat Buildsystem wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Package: kernel-2.6.20-1.3010.fc7
>  > > Tag: dist-fc7
>  > > Status: failed
>  > > Built by: davej
>  > > ID: 58684
>  > > Started: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:48:43 EDT
>  > > Finished: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:11:24 EDT
>  > > Changelog:
>  > > * Thu Mar 22 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>  > > - Check source with sparse during build.
>  > 
>  > Very cool.
> 
> Still fighting it.  As luck would have it, it's shaking out
> bugs in sparse.  Seems to blow up horribly on ppc64.

Just wondering -- why are you downloading sparse in the spec file? Isn't
there a better way to use it?

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/kernel/devel/kernel-2.6.spec?view=markup
[...]
# Download and unpack sparse.
%define sparsever 0.2
curl -O
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/sparse-%{sparsever}.tar.bz2
tar jxf sparse-%{sparsever}.tar.bz2
[...]

CU
thö