On 15/02/2019 08:34, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: [snip] > 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. Hmm, yes, sparse may well depend a little too much on gcc. ;-) Having said that, these values built-in to sparse are just default values that can be set from the command-line of sparse (see -gcc-base-dir and -multiarch-dir). Indeed they _are_ set by cgcc by running the 'specified c compiler' at each invocation, if not _also_ specified on the cgcc command line. Hmm, do you remember how/what failed? (I suppose this was not a kernel usage). ATB, Ramsay Jones
