Re: sparse on scripts/kconfig/*.c

[Randy Dunlap]

On 05/09/17 13:17, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 09:47:41AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been attempting to run sparse on the kconfig/ C files -- without success.
>>
>> The kbuild files don't try to support CHECK in scripts/kconfig/ AFAICT,
>> and just running sparse on the C files has issues with not being able to
>> find header files.
>>
>> Has anyone done this?  Any clues about how to do it?
> 
> As a wild guess from using sparse on various userspace projects:
> 
> have you tried simply setting HOSTCC to cgcc?

I don't quite see what that has to do with running sparse ($CHECK, not $HOSTCC).

Anyway, I tried it and got the same message:

nconf.h:19:11: error: unable to open 'menu.h'


thanks.
-- 
~Randy