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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: $CHECK can't be overridden 
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Dave Jones (on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:15:25 -0400) wrote:
>make help implies that supplying $CHECK on the command line
>should override sparse as the checker used when building with C=1
>Yet, this doesn't seem to be the case.
>
>This would be useful for cases where for eg, sparse isn't in
>the $PATH, allowing an explicit path to the executable to be
>passed in automated build environments.

Works for me.

# make C=1 CHECK=foo
Using somedir/linux as source for kernel
GEN     someobj/Makefile
CHK     include/linux/version.h
CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
CHK     include/linux/compile.h
CHECK   somedir/linux/kdb/modules/kdb_bt2.c
/bin/sh: foo: command not found