On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 19:16, Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 5:29 PM Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org wrote: >> >> On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 14:35, Ryan Stone <rysto32_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I seem to recall something about libarchive or ar having a bug >> > creating archives > 4GB, >> >> Indeed, FreeBSD's bespoke ar does not support the /SYM64/ format >> needed for offsets >4GB. imp_at_ also ran into this; I'm not sure what's >> causing libclang.a to be >4GB. Is there one object file that's >> unreasonably large? > > > For me it was a DEBUG_FLAGS=-g I had in make.conf that I'd forgotten about. > > Ar should fail to create a .a that's >4GB. Yes - at least, one with a symbol table. It's PR234454. Next month two co-op students will start working for the FreeBSD Foundation and adding 64-bit /SYM64/ support to ar will probably make a good starting project for one of them.Received on Fri Dec 28 2018 - 00:20:57 UTC
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