From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (mail.mlbassoc.com [65.100.170.105]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F287E0140D for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 1998) id 16620F81206; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:07:06 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 Received: from [192.168.1.114] (zeus [192.168.1.114]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2560F811FF; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:07:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <51F29EAA.4070702@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:07:06 -0600 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Burton, Ross" References: <51F29A98.4030006@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Yocto Project Subject: Re: It's a [PERL] lie... X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:07:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-07-26 09:54, Burton, Ross wrote: > On 26 July 2013 16:49, Gary Thomas wrote: >> It turns out that PERL is the only package >> that cares about this DISTRO_FEATURE and it builds incorrectly >> if it's left out :-( Adding this feature back into my settings >> made PERL build properly and now Amanda runs as well. > > According to grep it's perl, cmake and libarchive that respect the > largefile feature. Indeed, I missed them in my zeal :-( I new I was looking for something that affected my problem, and perl was the key (I'm not using either of the other packages) > > If perl is known to break without largefile it's simple enough to make > it error when building if the feature isn't enabled, but to be honest > should we just remove this feature as it's so infrequently used? I'd vote for at least fixing the perl recipe. The problem is insidious; it only fails at runtime and then in mysterious ways... It also fails on every architecture I tried (x86, ARM, PPC) -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------