This seems like the correct way to go. Of course autoconf checks for platforms that use it tos witch on the support can also be added.
david ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <dev@apr.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 2:42 PM Subject: Re: LARGEFILE support? > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > > Question, > > > > if we enable largefile support for unix, the apr_finfo_t->size, apr_off_t, > > and so forth all become 64 bit identities? > > > > Are we prepared to do so today? Consequences? Win32 absolutely handles > > 64 bit file sizes/offsets without complaint, I just want to get a handle on > > how we proceed for all the platforms' benefit. > > We can't enable it by default, because that has some serious consequences > on some platforms. If we want to provide a configure option, then we can > turn it on whenever we want to. If we want to enable it on some platforms > by default, I don't see that as a problem. > > Ryan > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ > Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 406 29th St. > San Francisco, CA 94131 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > >
