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

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Karl Hiramoto wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the explanation. Jan, can I assume you're OK with this patch?