Re: [PATCH] cross-sparse

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> I wanted to give sparse a try on m68k, and noticed the current infrastructure
> doesn't handle cross-compilation (no sane m68k people compile kernels natively
> anymore, unless they run a Debian autobuilder ;-).
> 
> After hacking the include paths in the sparse sources, installing the resulting
> binary as m68k-linux-sparse, and applying the following patch, it seems to work
> fine!

Hmm.. It does make sense, but at the same time, sparse isn't even really 
supposed to _care_ about the architecture. Especially not for a kernel 
build.

Which part breaks when not just using the native sparse? As far as I know, 
a kernel build should use all-kernel header files, with the exception of 
"stdarg.h" which I thought was also architecture-independent (but hey, 
maybe I'm just a retard, and am wrong).

		Linus
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