From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-architecture@lists.openembedded.org,
OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Cached size of off_t
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:09:43 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1462345.ZzKELdxCEg@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39606447-07D3-4F1F-93A1-CB9C77114535@gmail.com>
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:23:33 Khem Raj wrote:
> Hi
>
> We cache size of off_t in site files and the value is 4 in most cases
>
>
> meta/site/arm-linux:ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=4}
> meta/site/ix86-common:ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=4}
> meta/site/nios2-linux:ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=4}
> meta/site/powerpc32-linux:ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=4}
> meta/site/x32-linux:ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=8}
> meta/site/x86_64-linux:ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=${ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=8}
>
>
> However this value is wrong when largefile support is enabled (which is
> default) on most OE based distros. It also lands us in nasty bugs which are
> complicated to uncover eg. the curl issue
>
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=3c58712465494e441c4
> 036a7cf21d2e6d343efab
>
> and just in OE-Core more e.g. grub2,libsndfile1,pax are showing same
> symptoms.
>
> I think this value should be left for configure to compute and
> autotools.bbclass should pass --{enable|disable}-largefile based upon
> DISTRO_FEATURES enabling largefile support
>
> Do we see any downsides or point I might have missed
IIRC I think the issue was older configure scripts without the capability to
compute this properly (where we're not auto-reconf'ing them).
Ross, any thoughts?
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-13 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 23:23 Cached size of off_t Khem Raj
2016-01-13 0:09 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2016-01-13 0:19 ` [Openembedded-architecture] " Khem Raj
2016-01-13 0:22 ` Andre McCurdy
2016-01-13 9:00 ` Burton, Ross
2016-01-14 11:33 ` Martin Jansa
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