319395 – media-libs/tiff: --enable-largefile abuse

Bug 319395 - media-libs/tiff: --enable-largefile abuse

Summary: media-libs/tiff: --enable-largefile abuse

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High QA (vote)
Assignee:	Steve Arnold

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Reported:	2010-05-12 11:20 UTC by Samuli Suominen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-06-21 22:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-12 11:20:46 UTC

tiff's ebuild:

$(use_enable bigtiff largefile)

metadata.xml:

<flag name="bigtiff">Provide support for very large tiff files.</flag>

can we please get rid of this violation?

why not "use mojo && append-lfs-flags" ? :-p

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-05-20 02:52:12 UTC

at the very least it should be changed to the more common USE=largefile

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-22 01:57:18 UTC

the autotools based configure scripts are usually smart about this, and enable it automatically on arch's where it's required, so USE flag is unnecessary

if that's not true for tiff, then what Mike said

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-21 22:05:29 UTC

upstream enables largefile support by default -> the "pointless" use flag dropped in _beta6