Re: sparse on scripts/kconfig/*.c

[Christoph Hellwig]

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?