Hi Joel,

You wrote on 2014-12-13:
> Both BFD and GDB use a number of procfs routines, and those routines
> are apparently incompatible with largefile support on 32bit solaris
> (sparc32, x86).

Thanks for the notice, but gnulib deals with portability pitfalls
of ISO C / POSIX / GNU APIs. Portability pitfalls of Solaris specific API
is outside the scope of gnulib, because very few packages use it.

> Ref: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-12/msg00058.html
> "This patch fixes the issue by passing --disable-largefile to gnulib's
>  configure when large-file support in GDB is disabled."

This sounds like the best approach, considering the scope of gnulib. 

Bruno


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