[yocto] It's a [PERL] lie...

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Fri Jul 26 08:54:59 PDT 2013


On 26 July 2013 16:49, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>  It turns out that PERL is the only package
> that cares about this DISTRO_FEATURE and it builds incorrectly
> if it's left out :-(  Adding this feature back into my settings
> made PERL build properly and now Amanda runs as well.

According to grep it's perl, cmake and libarchive that respect the
largefile feature.

If perl is known to break without largefile it's simple enough to make
it error when building if the feature isn't enabled, but to be honest
should we just remove this feature as it's so infrequently used?

Ross



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