From: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>,
openembedded-architecture
<openembedded-architecture@lists.openembedded.org>,
OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Cached size of off_t
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:22:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ86T=XNsV6gVhFvN2EEDbTV=FWaDL+XnLJjBj5t9kJVfViirg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1spYKDvYh2uvVBVqesyFM0_jAdYYTBnzEnOfQ-YQXw-xsA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> Thanks Paul.
> I think in that case it is better to move that into the concerned
> recipe and let defaults be reversed
How do these older configure scripts work today for MIPS and SH4 which
don't seem to define ac_cv_sizeof_off_t in their site files?
>>
>> Ross, any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>> --
>>
>> Paul Eggleton
>> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-13 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-12 23:23 Cached size of off_t Khem Raj
2016-01-13 0:09 ` [Openembedded-architecture] " Paul Eggleton
2016-01-13 0:19 ` Khem Raj
2016-01-13 0:22 ` Andre McCurdy [this message]
2016-01-13 9:00 ` Burton, Ross
2016-01-14 11:33 ` Martin Jansa
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