On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:34:55AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 01:42:53AM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > [Uwe - in an earlier email you said the you had 'other > > patches applied' (including setting CC=gcc-8 and LDFLAGS). > > An obvious question would be: What patches and why? :-D > > (I assume it has something to do with 'packaging', but > > the question remains).] > > I use CC = gcc-8 for the debian package because other it can happen (and > it actually did) that /usr/bin/gcc was updated from gcc-X to gcc-(X+1) > and then sparse started to fail because it still used > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/X/ (i.e. the output of > > gcc --print-file-name= > > ) which disappeard as it changes on major version bumps. > > So sparse depends explicitly on the current gcc version and uses this. > > The LDFLAGS change isn't strictly Debian specific, upstream could maybe > benefit here, too. See > > https://sources.debian.org/src/sparse/0.6.0-3/debian/patches/ld-as-needed.patch/ > > for the actual change. Problem is that '--as-needed' is not supported on all platforms (it doesn't for me on a not so old FreeBSD, for example). --Luc
