On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 18:25 +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm making some cleanup in my dev tree and there are a few things >> I'm curious about concerning what distros are doing. >> >> I hope you don't mind to answer to those questions. >> >> 1) Do the distros use sparse's shared lib? >> I remember there was a mail about it months ago but >> I can't find it anymore. >> > > The Fedora and EPEL packages do not. I'm not opposed to adding it, but I > don't really need it and no one has asked for it. I also don't see the need for it for now. >> 2) Do the distros use sparse's install rule? >> > > Yes. rpmbuild basically does a make install in a chrooted dir, and then > installs the files that end up in there. OK, that's good to know. >> 3) Do the distros install sparse with its pkconfig? > > No. Since we aren't packaging the shared lib, we don't bother. OK, that's good because it's broken since 2013 :( Thanks for the reply, Luc -- 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
