[patch] Unify AC_SYS_LARGEFILE exception across dirs (+GDB new largefile support)

Mon Nov 9 19:07:00 GMT 2009

The patch is fine for the gcc repo too.  It would have been nice if
enable_plugins was used directly without going through a useless
indirection, but this is not the right patch to fix that.

Paolo

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 15:10, Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is AC_SYS_LARGEFILE present in some */configure.{ac,in} files,
> its import history is listed at:
>        [patch, configures] Unify AC_SYS_LARGEFILE exception across dirs
>        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-11/msg00230.html
>
> There was found a problem as it is required to have the largefile support
> active/inactive exactly the same in all the subdirectories due to ABI
> compatibility as shown in PR 9992 fixed by Nick Clifton.
>
> Therefore got now accepted config/largefile.m4 for it to make it unified:
>        Re: [patch, configures] Unify AC_SYS_LARGEFILE exception across dirs
>        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-11/msg00353.html
>        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2009-11/msg00206.html
>
> There is a bug in this (currently unused) config/largefile.m4 as it depends on
> ${plugins} which is never set there.  One would have to always call AC_PLUGINS
> beforehand.  Therefore config/largefile.m4 should call AC_PLUGINS itself.
> After this patch gets approved for binutils I will ask for an update of
> config/largefile.m4 in GCC SVN (+sourceware CVS).
>
> bfd/ + binutils/ + ld/ have ABI dependency on bfd/ interface, patched here.
> At least bfd_stat() has such dependency.
>
> libiberty/ has no largefile-lreated ABI differences in its interface so it is
> not patched.  It already has AC_SYS_LARGEFILE but with no exceptions.
> Discussed at:
>        [patch, configures] Unify AC_SYS_LARGEFILE exception across dirs
>        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-11/msg00230.html
>
> gas/ + gprof/ have no found dependencies on bfd/ but as they use it they could
> easily start to have (such as if they would start to use bfd_stat()), patched.
>
> gdb/ patched with new largefile support as this patch is a blocker for fix of
> a regression of mine:
>        http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-11/msg00084.html
>
> Regression tested on i386-fedora11-linux-gnu for gas/ld/binutils.
>
> Diff of the the generated parts is at:
>        http://people.redhat.com/jkratoch/largefile/acx-largefile-generated.patch
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>
>
> config/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * largefile.m4 (ACX_LARGEFILE): Call AC_PLUGINS.
>
> bfd/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * configure.in: Call ACX_LARGEFILE.  Stop calling AC_PLUGINS,
>        AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and checking the Solaris largefile exception.
>        * aclocal.m4: Regenerate.
>        * configure: Regenerate.
>
> binutils/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * configure.in: Call ACX_LARGEFILE.  Stop calling AC_PLUGINS,
>        AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and checking the Solaris largefile exception.
>        * aclocal.m4: Regenerate.
>        * configure: Regenerate.
>
> gas/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * configure.in: Call ACX_LARGEFILE.  Stop calling AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
>        * aclocal.m4: Regenerate.
>        * configure: Regenerate.
>
> gprof/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * configure.in: Call ACX_LARGEFILE.  Stop calling AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
>        * aclocal.m4: Regenerate.
>        * configure: Regenerate.
>
> ld/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * configure.in: Call ACX_LARGEFILE.  Stop calling AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
>        * aclocal.m4: Regenerate.
>        * configure: Regenerate.
>
> gdb/
> 2009-11-09  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
>
>        * configure.ac: Call ACX_LARGEFILE.
>        * aclocal.m4: Regenerate.
>        * configure: Regenerate.
>        * config.in: Regenerate.
>
> --- a/config/largefile.m4
> +++ b/config/largefile.m4
> @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
>  # of structures used to describe files.
>
>  AC_DEFUN([ACX_LARGEFILE],[dnl
> +
> +# As the $enable_largefile decision depends on --enable-plugins we must set it
> +# even in directories otherwise not depending on the $plugins option.
> +
> +AC_PLUGINS
> +
>  case "${host}" in
>  changequote(,)dnl
>   sparc-*-solaris*|i[3-7]86-*-solaris*)
> --- a/bfd/configure.in
> +++ b/bfd/configure.in
> @@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
>
>  LT_INIT([dlopen])
>
> -AC_PLUGINS
> +# AC_PLUGINS setting $plugins is called by ACX_LARGEFILE.
> +ACX_LARGEFILE
>
>  AM_CONDITIONAL(PLUGINS, test "$plugins" = "yes")
>
> @@ -37,26 +38,6 @@ if test "$plugins" = "yes"; then
>   enable_targets="$enable_targets plugin"
>  fi
>
> -case "${target}" in
> -changequote(,)dnl
> -  sparc-*-solaris*|i[3-7]86-*-solaris*)
> -changequote([,])dnl
> -    # On native 32bit sparc and ia32 solaris, large-file and procfs support
> -    # are mutually exclusive; and without procfs support, the elf module
> -    # cannot provide certain routines such as elfcore_write_prpsinfo
> -    # or elfcore_write_prstatus.  So unless the user explicitly requested
> -    # large-file support through the --enable-largefile switch, disable
> -    # large-file support in favor of procfs support.
> -    if test "${target}" = "${host}" -a "$enable_largefile" != 'yes'; then
> -      if test "$plugins" = "no"; then
> -        enable_largefile="no"
> -      fi
> -    fi
> -    ;;
> -esac
> -
> -AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
> -
>  AC_ARG_ENABLE(64-bit-bfd,
>  [  --enable-64-bit-bfd     64-bit support (on hosts with narrower word sizes)],
>  [case "${enableval}" in
> --- a/binutils/configure.in
> +++ b/binutils/configure.in
> @@ -16,25 +16,7 @@ AC_PROG_CC
>  AC_GNU_SOURCE
>  AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
>
> -AC_PLUGINS
> -
> -case "${target}" in
> -changequote(,)dnl
> -  sparc-*-solaris*|i[3-7]86-*-solaris*)
> -changequote([,])dnl
> -    # See comment in bfd/configure.in for the reason for this test.
> -    # PR 9992/binutils: We have to duplicate the behaviour of bfd's
> -    # configure script so that the utilities in this directory agree
> -    # on the size of structures used to describe files.
> -    if test "${target}" = "${host}" -a "$enable_largefile" != 'yes'; then
> -      if test "$plugins" = "no"; then
> -        enable_largefile="no"
> -      fi
> -    fi
> -    ;;
> -esac
> -
> -AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
> +ACX_LARGEFILE
>  LT_INIT
>
>  AC_ARG_ENABLE(targets,
> --- a/gas/configure.in
> +++ b/gas/configure.in
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gas, ${BFD_VERSION})
>  AC_PROG_CC
>  AC_GNU_SOURCE
>  AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
> -AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
> +ACX_LARGEFILE
>
>  LT_INIT
>
> --- a/gprof/configure.in
> +++ b/gprof/configure.in
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([gconfig.h:gconfig.in])
>  AC_PROG_CC
>  AC_GNU_SOURCE
>  AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
> -AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
> +ACX_LARGEFILE
>  AC_PROG_INSTALL
>
>  LT_INIT
> --- a/ld/configure.in
> +++ b/ld/configure.in
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ fi
>  AC_PROG_CC
>  AC_GNU_SOURCE
>  AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
> -AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
> +ACX_LARGEFILE
>  AC_PROG_INSTALL
>
>  LT_INIT
> --- a/gdb/configure.ac
> +++ b/gdb/configure.ac
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
>  AC_PROG_CC
>  AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
>  gl_EARLY
> +ACX_LARGEFILE
>  AM_PROG_CC_STDC
>
>  AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(..)
>
>