This patch does the way you recommended already.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 04:56:52PM -0700, Andy Zhou wrote: > > sparse support seems to be broken on some recent Linux distributions. > > For example, ubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.5 kernel, and Debian latest test > > distribution, running Linux 3.2 kernel. > > > > On both systems that sparse was broken, It was not able find the header > files > > in the default system include directories. GCC finds them by default. > > > > This patch adds the required GCC default search path when running sparse. > > > > Tested on: > > > > Ubuntu 12.04 - w/ linux 3.5 kernel > > Debian-6 March test distribution - w/ linux 3.2 kernel > > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Zhou <az...@nicira.com> > > This approach doesn't make me happy, but after some poking around I > can't figure out a better way. > > One issue to consider: as-is, this adds an extra gcc and sed > invocation for every compile (inside ``). That might extend the > overall "make" by a second or more. Would you mind measuring the > cost? If it is high, then it would be worth doing the gcc and sed > invocation just once, at configure time, and then using the results > for every "make'. > > Thanks, > > Ben. >
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