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

2017-08-31 Thread Ramsay Jones
parse-llvm etc., would not be built, and the tests would not be run ... ;-) Christopher, as the project maintainer, has the joy of making these kinds of decisions! :-D ATB, Ramsay Jones

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

2017-08-30 Thread Ramsay Jones
for the time being is to use the cgcc front-end to sparse. (for example 'make CC=cgcc', or perhaps 'cgcc -no-compile'). [You didn't mention your usage - is this for a kernel build?] ATB, Ramsay Jones