Hi Joakim, > When building small libs/exec on ppc32 I usally get sparse files like so:
> binutils 2.25.1 doing in this commit: > (Set ppc COMMONPAGESIZE to 64k) > > This is a huge problem as these sparse file are packaged into a > tar file and when unpacked they lose the sparse attribute and will expand to > 66K on > disk and fill up the my small FS. > I guess many packaging tools uses tar so I expect I other people will run > into this to. > > I do wonder why it now became necessary to increase page size in binutils? For correct operation with Linux based installations. It appears however that there is a workaround. If you define __QNXTARGET__ whilst building the ppc32 binutils you will set the page size to 1K, which is presumably what you want. Cheers Nick _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
