[OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] [PATCH] meta: start to ignore the largefile distro feature

[Mark Hatle]

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 <armccurdy at gmail.com
> <mailto:armccurdy at gmail.com>> 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
> 
> 
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