Il giorno gio, 10/03/2011 alle 10.56 +0100, justin ha scritto: > > > just because upstream has this configure flag. but it seems we agree > on > removing the flag completely, defaulting on largefile support and > fixing > what needs a fix. > Correct?
Correct. Any configure with AC_SYS_LARGEFILE will get a --enable-largefile option, but if you grep through the tree, this is usually simply added unconditionally. It is more interesting to see whether it actually supports LFS entirely; quite a few packages forget to include config.h in some file or other, and cause mixed LFS and non-LFS syscalls to be used, which is bad. I have written an utility as part of Ruby-Elf[1] called verify-lfs that is designed to check for that. Also note that largefile has no meaning on most 64-bit arches (AMD64 for sure, I guess the others as well). [1] http://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/ruby-elf -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
