[OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] Cached size of off_t

[Paul Eggleton]

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

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre