From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, yao@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] configure gdb/gnulib with --disable-largefile if largefile support disabled.
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h9xc62dw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417608509-15533-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:08:29 -0500
>
> | 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 bfd/ 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.
> | test "${target}" = "${host}" -a "x$plugins" = xno \
> | && : ${enable_largefile="no"}
> | ;;
>
> But gnulib ignores this fact, and so tries to determine how to
> enable large-file support irrespective of whether we want it or not.
> This patch fixes the issue by passing --disable-largefile to gnulib's
> configure when large-file support in GDB is disabled. This is done
> by first enhancing ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR to allow us to pass extra
> arguments to be passed to the configure command, and then by modifying
> GDB's configure to pass --disable-largefile if large-file support
> is disabled.
Shouldn't this be reported to gnulib folks and preferably fixed there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 5:46 [PATCH 0/7 V2] Import the rename gnulib module Yao Qi
2014-11-26 5:46 ` [PATCH 1/7] Import readlink Yao Qi
2014-12-03 10:48 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-12-03 12:08 ` [RFA] configure gdb/gnulib with --disable-largefile if largefile support disabled Joel Brobecker
2014-12-03 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-04 3:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-12-04 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-13 16:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-12-04 2:17 ` Yao Qi
2014-12-13 14:46 ` pushed: " Joel Brobecker
2014-11-26 5:46 ` [PATCH 2/7] Use readlink unconditionally Yao Qi
2014-11-26 5:47 ` [PATCH 5/7] Import canonicalize-lgpl Yao Qi
2014-11-26 5:47 ` [PATCH 3/7] Import lstat Yao Qi
2014-12-02 17:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-12-03 9:48 ` [pushed] callback.h:struct host_callback_struct compilation error on Windows hosts Joel Brobecker
2014-12-04 1:09 ` Yao Qi
2014-12-04 5:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-11-26 5:47 ` [PATCH 6/7] Use canonicalize_file_name unconditionally Yao Qi
2014-11-27 7:36 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-11-28 3:07 ` Yao Qi
2014-11-28 3:43 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-11-28 10:43 ` Yao Qi
2014-11-28 14:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-11-26 5:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] Use lstat unconditionally Yao Qi
2014-11-26 5:47 ` [PATCH 7/7] Import rename module Yao Qi
2014-11-26 15:40 ` [PATCH 0/7 V2] Import the rename gnulib module Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 3:48 ` Yao Qi
2014-11-27 7:41 ` Joel Brobecker
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