Re: [PATCH v3] Fix building xfsprogs on 32-bit platforms

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On 12/21/16 1:04 PM, Eric Biggers wrote:
>> xfslibs now requires that its users enable transparent largefile
>> support.  This broke building xfsprogs on 32-bit Linux (with glibc)
>> because _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 was not getting defined.  Although the
>> autoconf macro AC_SYS_LARGEFILE was intended to define it, this didn't
>> work because AC_SYS_LARGEFILE will only define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS in a
>> config header, which doesn't work for xfsprogs because not all .c files
>> include platform_defs.h as their first include.  Also,
>> platform_defs.h.in is not generated by autoheader and didn't contain a
>> template for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
>>
>> Therefore, to fix the problem remove the useless autoconf macros and
>> instead add -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS in builddefs.in.  Use
>> CFLAGS rather than PCFLAGS because this definition could be needed by
>> platforms other than "linux", and it doesn't hurt to always define it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is this patch planned to be applied?  Building 32-bit Linux binaries of xfsprogs
> is still broken on the master branch, and there's nothing in for-next.

TBH I haven't really tested this on a 32-bit system yet,
I'm sorry.  Right now, I plan to get it into the tree right
after we cut the next release this week.

-Eric


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