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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 14:09:52
Message-Id: 20150531160937.7e3d418d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sun, 31 May 2015 09:46:30 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 31 May 2015 12:59, Alexis Ballier wrote:
5 > > I don't understand why one should add append-lfs-flags to almost
6 > > every single package out there.
7 >
8 > no one is suggesting that route. append-lfs-flags is a kludge
9 > (albeit an effective one) in the face of no upstream support. if you
10 > look at the referenced tracker it includes pointers for fixing
11 > packages in ways that can be sent upstream.
12
13 well, other suggestions are similar, except of course that appending
14 the flags is done upstream in some way or another
15
16 however, reading more in details the links you provided, what happened
17 to your patch setting _FILE_OFFSET_BITS default to 64 ?
18 ( https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00290.html )
19 which seems to be a much better solution to what i initially proposed.