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From: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
To: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux.inc: add fallocate only for class-target
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:05:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJTo0LbkAc9NgGyE2HCvFLt6ggcO-iMpYp-XMDB9oy=RAV7TEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ86T=VQ_Qk0TOhHRiZ0SThgZ8-HZOTz6L5JXD4K2ut+7tbWFA@mail.gmail.com>

On 27 July 2018 at 00:58, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com> wrote:
>> On 26 July 2018 at 14:58, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@ni.com> wrote:
>>> Because the util-linux_2.32.bb recipe explicitely disables fallocate
>>> for nativesdk triggering build warnings:
>>
>> Does anyone know why util-linux disables fallocate for nativesdk and
>> native builds?
>
> Seems to date back to this commit:
>
>   http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=17f3c548caf4adec37c3bbb139aa6b3900419794
>
>   +# fallocate is glibc 2.10, fallocate64 is glibc 2.11
>   +# we need to disable it for older versions
>   +EXTRA_OECONF += "ac_cv_func_fallocate=no"
>   +EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-native += "--disable-fallocate
> --disable-use-tty-group"

Well done, it was late and I got bored following the git-blame log.  :)

Sounds like historical reasons to me, does anyone object to dropping this?
Ross


  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-27 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-26 13:58 [PATCH] util-linux.inc: add fallocate only for class-target Ioan-Adrian Ratiu
2018-07-26 14:00 ` Martin Jansa
2018-07-26 14:19   ` [PATCHv2] " Martin Jansa
2018-07-26 14:22   ` [PATCH] " Martin Jansa
2018-07-26 17:06     ` Ioan-Adrian Ratiu
2018-07-26 23:19       ` Andre McCurdy
2018-07-26 23:34 ` Burton, Ross
2018-07-26 23:58   ` Andre McCurdy
2018-07-27 11:05     ` Burton, Ross [this message]
2018-07-31 12:12       ` Richard Purdie

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