[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#746825: ACE+TAO 6.2.7

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

 >         - Large-file support. I can check for the right flag in
>         debian/rules,
>         outside MPC , and just pass MPC the proper flag, but I feel it's
>         not the
>         proper way. Any idea?
>
>
>     Probably debian/rules is the best way to determine it, than add the
>     flags to platform_macros.GNU. This all has nothing todo with MPC.
>
>
> I expected MPC to support this kind of checks, like autotools, CMake and
> may other build systems do.
>
> The main problem with doing this outside MPC is ACE upsstream will not
> benefit from this :-(

The problem is that with platform_macros.GNU the check will be done with 
each source file which is not a good thing. Maybe add flag to the GNU 
rules (like for example valgrind=1) that sets all needed compiler flags, 
for largefile=1, that way ACE upstream can just set the flag to 1 when 
needed.

Johnny
>
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Hi,