Re: [PATCH] iptables: optionally disable largefile support.

[Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>]

On 05/10/2010 10:00 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> What is the actual problem you are experiencing? If the toolchain does
> not support largefiles, the -D macros should not do anything, so that
> conversely, their presence is not harmful.
>    
Uclibc include headers do checking see:

http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/include/features.h#n216


You get errors like:


usr/include/features.h:383:4: error: #error It appears you have defined 
_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Unfortunately, uClibc was built without large file 
support enabled.
In file included from /build_armeb/staging_dir/usr/include/stdio.h:72,
                  from libiptc/libip4tc.c:18:
/build_armeb/staging_dir/usr/include/bits/uClibc_stdio.h:72:2: error: 
#error Sorry... uClibc was built without large file support!
In file included from libiptc/libip4tc.c:18:
/build_armeb/staging_dir/usr/include/stdio.h:83: error: expected '=', 
',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'fpos_t'
In file included from libiptc/libip4tc.c:18:
/build_armeb/staging_dir/usr/include/stdio.h:709: error: expected 
declaration specifiers or '...' before 'fpos_t'
/build_armeb/staging_dir/usr/include/stdio.h:711: error: expected ';', 
',' or ')' before '*' token


With this patch everything compiles and works fine.

--
Karl