Bug#871956: lintian: false positive: binary-file-built-without-LFS-support on x32
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Adam Borowski wrote:
Also, the vast majority of packages don't trigger this warning as they
request LFS unconditionally instead of trying to autodetect it.
The lintian warning here:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/binary-file-built-without-LFS-support.html
says "This can be done by using the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro with autoconf, or... "
This is what I've done in mpgrafic, since (in principle) autoconf
makes things less hardwired.
Isn't it cleaner to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE autoconf macro rather
than hardwire something such as -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 as a
non-optional compile option?
Also, a rather important question seems to me to be: are there some
architectures (e.g. especially 32-bit) where there is no point trying
to ensure LFS support, since it won't work anyway? Or conversely:
can gcc implement a software solution for LFS support no matter what
the architecture is (among debian official + unofficial ports)?
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