On 17-03-07 10:35:58, Burton, Ross wrote: > CCing openembedded-architecture to open the field for comments. > > On 7 March 2017 at 04:58, Andre McCurdy <[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 think this is fine to assert, however, there might be applications which still want to use --enable/--disable autoconf stuff, and ignore/override the env settings we might pass, so we need to watch out for those. Otherwise, this seems a step in right direction. > > 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! me neither, we should just make it default settings. > > 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
