Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: lfs Three cheers for the new dpkg-buildflags interface!
I would like to suggest an addition to the default flags: the output of getconf LFS_CFLAGS should be included in the CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS variables. On 32-bit archs, this gives the following: -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (on 64-bit archs, it returns an empty string.) I make this suggestion because we had lfs as a release goal nearly a decade ago already, and we've never really had very good coverage for this and made very little progress since then. Turning this on by default would make a big dent. However, there are some major risks with this being a default. Any library that exports off_t in its interface would suddenly have an ABI change as a result of this flag being set! So if this were to be enabled by default, it would need to be carefully coordinated. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
