The previously recommended version of sparse, version 0.4.4, does not support -Wsparse-error properly, so configuring with --enable-Werror and --enable-sparse will not have the desired effect of breaking the build when sparse reports an error. Version 0.5.1 and later do implement this properly.
This commit also updates the recommended URL for sparse because the previous URL doesn't have the newer releases. Reported-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- Documentation/intro/install/general.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst index 718e5c2f7547..c4a3415854ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst @@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ other than plain text, only if you have the following: If you are going to extensively modify Open vSwitch, consider installing the following to obtain better warnings: -- "sparse" version 0.4.4 or later - (https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/). +- "sparse" version 0.5.1 or later + (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git/). - GNU make. -- 2.10.2 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
