Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glib2

[Hans Rosenfeld <hans%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:13:46PM +0200, Filip Hajny wrote:
> On 12. 7. 2012, at 12:01, Hans Rosenfeld wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:20:16AM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> >> Thus, my recommendation would actually be to just disable this tool on
> >> 32-bit SunOS or at least build that tool only with large file
> >> disabled, rather than break large file support completely for every
> >> single package which uses glib2, because my guess is the former is
> >> much more palatable for users.
> > 
> > I don't even know what that tool does, but building it without LFS seems
> > to be a reasonable fix for older and/or closed SunOS versions.
> > 
> > For Illumos-based systems, would this problem go away if the system had
> > the fix proposed in https://www.illumos.org/issues/2410?
> 
> No, I believe that's a separate issue (procfs vs. LFS, and libelf vs.
> LFS). And yes, we have that implemented in SmartOS already, which lets
> e.g. print/cups build 32bit.

Oh, I see. Could something similar be done to libelf to support LFS?
That shouldn't even require kernel changes.

Still, the poing about upstreaming the fix for #2410 remains :)


Hans


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