Re: [gentoo-dev] LFS QA warnings coming soon to a build near you

[Christopher Head]

On May 31, 2015 7:33:28 AM PDT, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
>
>I'm not sure what's best for every one:
>1. Push hundreds of patches upstream to add lfs flags;
>2. Apply your patch to our glibc ebuilds, fix the corner cases, and go
>  back to glibc upstream with these data.
>

If the changes are made to glibc, would these be under a new symbol version for ABI compatibility, or just be changes to headers to make _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 the default? If not, what about binary software? Not saying you haven’t considered the relevant issues; I just haven’t seen binary software brought up on this list yet.

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Christopher Head