On 09/11/17 17:43, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Ramsay Jones > <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> On 09/11/17 17:06, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: >>> >>> Acked-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> >>> BTW, selfcheck also fails when reaching sparse-llvm.c because of >>> the use of CFLAGS/BASIC_CFLAGS/ALL_CFLAGS/COMMON_CFLAGS/PKG_CFLAGS. >> >> Hmm, I used to have LLVM installed on Linux as well as cygwin, but >> I didn't install it the last time I did a 'nuke-n-pave' Linux >> installation. (Linux Mint is much easier to upgrade these days, which >> is to say it actually works now, but that wasn't always the case!). >> >> On cygwin, sparse-llvm.c complains for a cygwin-only reason, so it >> may be that those errors a hiding the ones you are seeing. I have been >> meaning to get around to fix the cygwin problems. >> >> What kind of errors are you seeing? > > The specific error message is: > sparse-llvm.c:6:11: error: unable to open 'llvm-c/Core.h' > but the cause is simply because the LLVM CFLAGS are used like: > sparse-llvm.o: BASIC_CFLAGS += $(LLVM_CFLAGS) > but selfcheck/cgcc, correctly, doesn't know about BASIC_CFLAGS. Hmm, that doesn't make much sense - the selfcheck target uses the $(ALL_CFLAGS), just like the '%.o %.c' target. So, if the file is compiled by gcc, then cgcc should have the same flags (plus some sparse specific flags). [This is the Makefile on the master branch @ c408da2]. puzzled ... ATB, Ramsay Jones -- 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