On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Luc, > > On 11/04/2017 06:43 PM, Jeff Layton 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. >> >>> 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. >> >>> 3) Do the distros install sparse with its pkconfig? >> >> No. Since we aren't packaging the shared lib, we don't bother. >> > > The answers for Debian are exactly the same. Ubuntu uses the Debian > packages as is. OK, thanks. > https://packages.debian.org/sid/sparse (and > https://packages.debian.org/sid/sparse-test-inspect) have "list of > files" links for each architecture which might be quicker to answer > similar questions for you. (But I don't mind your questions.) I see that the .h files are installed as well as sparse.pc. I've the intention to remove them from the install rule in my tree because using some .h files are missing since 2013 and I don't think anybody use it, only the executables are used. But I'm also fine to keep it if there is some objections. Best regards, -- 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
