On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:45:41PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 04:54:08PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>I see that sparse made it into Fedora Extras, so that 'yum install' > >>automatically pulls it down for me. Yay! Thanks, Matt. > >> > >>Can libsparse.a and necessary includes be packaged as well? > > > >.a or .so? The .so just got dropped from the standard sparse 'make > > Doesn't matter to me... Something is better than nothing. With > sparse's license, .a is no big deal. Fedora Extras strongly discourages shipping and using .a if only to ensure that any security issue uncovered can be addressed without always rebuilding all downstream dependent apps. Not too likely a problem with a tool like sparse, but always a concern. The .so would need to start being versioned, and care paid to bump the version as the ABIs change. That's one thing the opensuse build system does differently - tracking the full dependency tree, and automatically rebuilding all downstream dependent apps when an upstream app changes. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
