On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:50:21AM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > > On 17/02/2019 15:31, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > > From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > `uname -m` returns information about the host machine but this > > information is useless when cgcc is used with a non-native compiler. > > In this case it's information about the target machine that is needed. > > > > [This can happen when cross compiling or (more > > common) if you are running a 32 bit userspace on a 64 bit kernel. The > > latter makes sparse fail to build on some machines of the Debian build > > farm as for example some armhf builder run on arm64 kernels.] > > > This patch is only lightly tested and also misses details for mips* and > > missing [ and ... > > so marked as RFC.] > > probably should be removed completely, since it is no longer > an RFC? I still consider it more or less as RFC since it's lack some testing. And since it started from Uwe's patch for Debian builds, I would prefer to hear his opinion about it first. Best regards, -- Luc
