Re: sparse (cgcc) vs lintool

[Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>]

* Christoph Hellwig wrote on Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:07:56PM CEST:
> 
> LIBTOOL="libtool --tag=CC" CC=~/bin/cgcc ./configure
> 
> does it for me.  So I guess the problem is with libtool and it needs
> to be taught about cgcc.

Well, thing is, the typical way things work is that a libtool script is
generated as part of the configure process, and it sets things for the
$CC, $CXX, etc. used for that configure.  With this package, however,
/usr/bin/libtool is used, and that typically has been configured only
for /usr/bin/gcc etc.

I suppose a distro could add a section for cgcc, yes, or make it assume
--tag=CC for 'cgcc'.  But really passing --tag=CC is the sane thing to
do: the package knows that your code is C code, whereas libtool
inferring it from the command line is error-prone (which is why the tag
check was made stricter in the first place).

Cheers,
Ralf