On 13 January 2016 at 00:09, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
wrote:

> > 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).
>

The fact that it changes based on configure options says that it really
shouldn't be a cached value.

It's very unlikely that there's configure scripts out there still that
don't use the "modern" autoconf type size detection and if there are
they're trivially patched to use the new macros.

Remove it, as this is going to cause very strange problems as large files
get enabled more globally.  In particular I'm now worrying about DBus which
just recently got a patch to enable large file support.

Ross