From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: Re: [SPARSE] Questions for distros Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:43:29 -0400 Message-ID: <1509817409.29302.14.camel@redhat.com> References: <20171104172528.35tzbeh4k6kp6bbg@ltop.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qk0-f178.google.com ([209.85.220.178]:46309 "EHLO mail-qk0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932111AbdKDRnb (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:43:31 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-f178.google.com with SMTP id k123so6700629qke.3 for ; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 10:43:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20171104172528.35tzbeh4k6kp6bbg@ltop.local> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Luc Van Oostenryck , Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jeff Layton