Re: binutils 2.25.1 creates big sparse files

2016-02-05 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Joakim, > When building small libs/exec on ppc32 I usally get sparse files like so: > binutils 2.25.1 doing in this commit: > (Set ppc COMMONPAGESIZE to 64k) > > This is a huge problem as these sparse file are packaged into a > tar file and when unpacked they lose the sparse attribute and wil

binutils 2.25.1 creates big sparse files

2016-01-22 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
When building small libs/exec on ppc32 I usally get sparse files like so: ls -lsh | sort -n  64K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users  68K Jan 22 11:20 mgmt_alarmd*  64K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users  67K Jan 22 11:20 ne_memd*  56K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users  67K Jan 22 11:20 cp_dummy*  56K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke us