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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	autoconf@gnu.org, c-std-porting@lists.linux.dev,
	"Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org>,
	"David Seifert" <soap@gentoo.org>,
	"Gentoo Toolchain" <toolchain@gentoo.org>,
	"Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@aarsen.me>,
	"Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	"Frederic Berat" <fberat@redhat.com>,
	"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: On time64 and Large File Support
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:40:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9018152.CDJkKcVGEf@pinacolada> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wn81q254.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

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> >
> > Proposal: glibc gains two new build-time configure options:
> > * --enable-hard-time64
> > * --enable-hard-lfs
> 
> We should define new target triplets for this if it's really required.
> 

That doesn't really help anyone *but* Debian ...

> We need to support legacy binaries on i386.  Few libraries are
> explicitly dual-ABI.  Whether it's safe to switch libraries above
> glibc to LFS or time64 needs to be evaluated on a per-library
> basis.  For most distributions, no one is going to do that work,
> and we have to stick to whathever we are building today.

... since for Debian the libraries with different ABI end up in different
multiarch paths then.

Anyone with a more, ahem, standard filesystem arrangement has to find
a different solution for the problem of legacy binaries.

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-11  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-11  8:38 On time64 and Large File Support Sam James
2022-11-11  9:16 ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11  9:19   ` Sam James
2022-11-11 23:48   ` Joseph Myers
2022-11-11  9:19 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11  9:27   ` Sam James
2022-11-11 11:38     ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 20:12       ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12  2:20     ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-12  3:57       ` Sam James
2022-11-12 14:16         ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-12 17:41           ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 18:50             ` Bruno Haible
2022-11-12 19:15               ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12 20:23                 ` Wookey
2022-11-12 20:54                   ` Russ Allbery
2022-11-12 21:31                   ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]                     ` <951fc967-042c-4978-bd78-8bc4c8706b18@app.fastmail.com>
2022-11-13  5:11                       ` Zack Weinberg
2022-11-15  5:06                         ` Sam James
2022-12-25 19:19                         ` Paul Eggert
2022-12-29  4:02                           ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-30 22:12                             ` Paul Eggert
2022-12-30 22:20                               ` Sam James
2023-01-20  9:56                               ` Paul Eggert
2023-02-02  6:43                                 ` Sam James
2023-02-02 23:15                                   ` time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support) Paul Eggert
2023-02-02 23:17                                     ` Zack Weinberg
2023-02-03  5:49                                       ` Sam James
2023-02-03 12:43                                         ` time for Autoconf 2.72 Bruno Haible
     [not found]                                         ` <CAObJKZp2CCRR46-X9NYaRES7eDCVyoJ0xv=u4aSG2KeQv4vtjA@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-27  2:30                                           ` time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support) Sam James
2023-03-17 23:47                                             ` Sam James
2023-03-18  0:59                                               ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-18  2:08                                                 ` Jim Meyering
2023-03-18  2:52                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-19  0:30                                                     ` Jim Meyering
2023-03-19  0:57                                                       ` Sam James
2022-11-15  5:09                     ` On time64 and Large File Support Sam James
2022-11-12 18:19       ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11  9:40   ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
2022-11-11 11:30     ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 19:01       ` Andreas K. Huettel
2022-11-11 19:28         ` Palmer Dabbelt
2022-11-11  9:46   ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-11 11:22     ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-11 19:56       ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-12  4:20   ` Wookey
2022-11-12  4:28     ` Sam James
2022-11-12  4:56       ` Wookey
2022-11-12  4:59         ` Sam James
2022-11-12 18:33     ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-14  8:39   ` Adam Sampson
2022-11-14 11:47     ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-14 20:26     ` Arsen Arsenović
2022-11-14 20:52       ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-15  7:39         ` Arsen Arsenović
2022-11-11 10:25 ` Richard Purdie
2023-03-01 22:38 ` Eric Blake
2023-03-02  0:29   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2023-03-02  9:04     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 10:28       ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-02 10:38         ` Andreas Schwab
2023-03-03  5:46           ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-06  8:58             ` Andreas Schwab
2023-03-06 10:19               ` Florian Weimer
2023-03-02 11:02         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2023-03-02 12:17           ` Bruno Haible
2023-03-02 13:24             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03  3:30               ` Wookey
2023-03-03  5:50                 ` Paul Eggert
2023-03-03 14:01                   ` Wookey
2023-03-03 14:14                     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 23:21             ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-03-03 11:49           ` Florian Weimer
2023-03-03 12:39             ` Richard W.M. Jones
2023-03-02  8:30   ` Richard W.M. Jones

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