On 3/7/17 4:35 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > CCing openembedded-architecture to open the field for comments.
At this point, I'm not sure there is any reason to NOT using largefile system wide. It's a common enough feature, and even 'small' devices (with sdcard slots) can run into large file problems now. > On 7 March 2017 at 04:58, Andre McCurdy <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The largefile distro feature has been enabled by default in oe-core > for a long time and, more recently, also in poky-tiny. Building > without the largefile distro feature receives little or no testing. > Many packages now enable LFS without exposing a configure option, so > there should be very little expectation that disabling the distro > feature will result in a distro which globally disables LFS. > > > So I've had a bug for this for some time but have never got around to it. > > If we're going to assert "LFS by default" do we want a sanity check to verify > it > was used? > > Do we want to put -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the default > CFLAGS? > > I'm not aware of any good reason to not use LFS, but now is the time for > anyone > else to speak up if you have a good reason to keep it as an option! > > Ross > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-architecture mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-architecture > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
