Bug#873508: sparse test failures on ppc32le (and other not so common archs)

["Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat@debian.org>]

On 2017-09-01 09:46:44, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:43:53PM +0100, Ramsay Jones wrote:
>> On 31/08/17 21:55, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:11:49PM -0400, Christopher Li wrote:
>> >> That is very much like on x86_64 missing define "#weak_define __x86_64__ 1"
>> >>
>> >> Does cgcc work for you? In the future we do want to move the archetecture
>> >> related define from cgcc into sparse by itself. For now you can set
>> >> "sparse" as "cgcc -no-compile"
>> > 
>> > Yes that works. So to address the Debian bug I can do:
>> > 
>> >  - move sparse to /usr/lib
>> >  - teach cgcc about the move of sparse
>> >  - make /usr/bin/sparse call cgcc -no-compile "$@"
>> 
>> Hmm, I don't think that would be a good idea ...
>> 
>> > or is it easier to teach sparse about the architecture stuff?
>> 
>> I now understand (I think!) that you are building a sparse
>> package (presumably a .deb) and you are concerned that sparse
>> does not pass it's own testsuite on those platforms.
>
> Nearly right. I'm responsible for the sparse Debian package and the
> problem at hand is https://bugs.debian.org/873508. This bug report has
> "Severity: serious" wihch might eventually result in the removal of
> sparse from the Debian archive.
>
> @anarcat: Given that cgcc seems to work, would you agree to apply the
> following patch to horst:
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 4f924fa..d563652 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ $(NAME): $(OBJS)
>  $(OBJS): .buildflags
>  
>  check:
> -	sparse $(CFLAGS) *.[ch]
> +	cgcc -no-compile $(CFLAGS) *.[ch]
>  
>  clean:
>  	-rm -f *.o radiotap/*.o *~
>
> and downgrade the bug to "important"? That would be a compromise that
> buys us a bit of time.

Well right now I have simply disabled the checks for those broken
architectures, so sparse isn't as affected anymore.

Frankly, I don't quite know what to do with this - but I'd be happy to
happly that patch to sparse if it fixes the issue better.

A.

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