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

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

 >       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.
>
>
> How would that work? Where can I implement one of those flags, and where
> would I perform the test to decide the flag value?

Check platform_linux_common.GNU. According to some web documentation " 
getconf LFS_CFLAGS" should give you the large file flags if supported, 
maybe see if you can use this? getconf is already used in the same file

Johnny