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Re: [RFA] configure gdb/gnulib with --disable-largefile if largefile support disabled.
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, yao at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:29:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA] configure gdb/gnulib with --disable-largefile if largefile support disabled.
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> > I do not think so, because gnulib can be used independently of procfs,
> > in which case you would probably want gnulib to have large-file support
> > by default. It's only in GDB and binutils' peculiar situation that
> > we need to disable by default.
>
> Gnulib could have the necessary magic to DTRT in both situations, I
> think.
>
> Anyway, I don't think it's wise to not even tell Gnulib folks about
> this. If they say it's just our problem, so be it. But they might
> have other proposals.
FTR, reported at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2014-12/msg00177.html
--
Joel