On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 22:17 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:20:46PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > Minor changes to allow static analysis checkers besides sparse
> > 
> > This patch allows CHECK and CHECKFLAGS to be passed in on the make
> > invocation, such that one could specify a checker other than sparse,
> > and/or different flags. 
> This is alread possible.
> Try 
> make C=1 CHECK=checker_executable CHECKFLAGS=....
> from your example and see that it works.

No kidding, yep...I just tried that and it worked like a charm.  Thanks.

The inline documentation was misleading.

How about this simple patch to more clearly enunciate this in the inline
Makefile documentation?

---
Minor documentation change on allowing checkers besides sparse

This patch cleans up a couple of mentions of sparse in the inline
toplevel Makefile documentation such that it's clear that other checkers
besides sparse can override CHECK and CHECKFLAGS.

Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

diff -burpN linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/Makefile linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3-checker/Makefile
--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3/Makefile       2006-05-22 14:12:38.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm3-checker/Makefile       2006-05-23 15:50:25.000000000 
-0500
@@ -41,8 +41,9 @@ ifndef KBUILD_VERBOSE
   KBUILD_VERBOSE = 0
 endif
 
-# Call sparse as part of compilation of C files
-# Use 'make C=1' to enable sparse checking
+# Call checker as part of compilation of C files
+# Use 'make C=1' to enable checking (sparse, by default)
+# Override with 'make C=1 CHECK=checker_executable CHECKFLAGS=....'
 
 ifdef C
   ifeq ("$(origin C)", "command line")
@@ -1068,8 +1069,8 @@ help:
 
        @echo  '  make V=0|1 [targets] 0 => quiet build (default), 1 => verbose 
build'
        @echo  '  make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", 
including .config'
-       @echo  '  make C=1   [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse)'
-       @echo  '  make C=2   [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK 
(sparse)'
+       @echo  '  make C=1   [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse 
by default)'
+       @echo  '  make C=2   [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK 
(sparse by default)'
        @echo  ''
        @echo  'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with 
[*] '
        @echo  'For further info see the ./README file'




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