[RFA] configure gdb/gnulib with --disable-largefile if largefile support disabled.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 07:18:28 +0400
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, yao@codesourcery.com
> 
> > > But gnulib ignores this fact, and so tries to determine how to
> > > enable large-file support irrespective of whether we want it or not.
> > > This patch fixes the issue by passing --disable-largefile to gnulib's
> > > configure when large-file support in GDB is disabled. This is done
> > > by first enhancing ACX_CONFIGURE_DIR to allow us to pass extra
> > > arguments to be passed to the configure command, and then by modifying
> > > GDB's configure to pass --disable-largefile if large-file support
> > > is disabled.
> > 
> > Shouldn't this be reported to gnulib folks and preferably fixed there?
> 
> I do not think so, because gnulib can be used independently of procfs,
> in which case you would probably want gnulib to have large-file support
> by default. It's only in GDB and binutils' peculiar situation that
> we need to disable by default.

Gnulib could have the necessary magic to DTRT in both situations, I
think.

Anyway, I don't think it's wise to not even tell Gnulib folks about
this.  If they say it's just our problem, so be it.  But they might
have other proposals.