[OE-core] [PATCH] util-linux.inc: add fallocate only for class-target

[Burton, Ross]

On 27 July 2018 at 00:58, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 26 July 2018 at 14:58, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu at ni.com> wrote:
>>> Because the util-linux_2.32.bb recipe explicitely disables fallocate
>>> for nativesdk triggering build warnings:
>>
>> Does anyone know why util-linux disables fallocate for nativesdk and
>> native builds?
>
> Seems to date back to this commit:
>
>   http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=17f3c548caf4adec37c3bbb139aa6b3900419794
>
>   +# fallocate is glibc 2.10, fallocate64 is glibc 2.11
>   +# we need to disable it for older versions
>   +EXTRA_OECONF += "ac_cv_func_fallocate=no"
>   +EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-native += "--disable-fallocate
> --disable-use-tty-group"

Well done, it was late and I got bored following the git-blame log.  :)

Sounds like historical reasons to me, does anyone object to dropping this?
Ross