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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, 505177@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Hard-coded gcc header path
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:28:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111202849.GD25986@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081111201328.GA10073@artemis.corp>

On Tue, 11 November 2008 21:13:28 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:15:29PM +0000, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > 
> > Then the short-term solution for debian is clear.  Simply rebuild the
> > package and add a dependency on a specific gcc version.
> 
> Which sucks badly because the default gcc is not always the same on
> every arch, and more importantly, people may want to use different GCCs.
> It would look like a better idea to ask gcc for its include path
> properly.

Maybe not even that.  It is conceivable to want sparse on systems that
don't even have gcc installed.  The BSDs seem to favor pcc lately.  So
the preferred long-term solution would be for sparse to ship its own
headers.

Jörn

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-11 13:58 Hard-coded gcc header path Jörn Engel
2008-11-11 14:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-11 14:15   ` Jörn Engel
2008-11-11 20:13     ` Bug#505177: " Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-11 20:28       ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-11-11 21:00         ` Morten Welinder
2008-11-11 22:32           ` Jörn Engel
2008-11-11 23:10             ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-11-11 14:41 ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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