On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:22:31AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > ICK! Please undo your change. Defining _LARGE_FILES as is done in
> > rsync.h means everyone will be impacted (Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,
> > FreeBSD, Tru64 UNIX, ...). Discussion has already occurred on this
> > list about LFS support:
>
> OK, I'll take it out. Thankyou for catching this.
Great!
> > If the current configure test is broken for AIX, the autoconf test
> > should be fixed. Also, Andrew is probably going to move away from the
> > explicit use of 64-bit data types (like off64_t). Paul Eggert has
> > written an autoconf macro, AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, which is now a *standard*
> > part of autoconf in CVS, that detects what to add to CFLAGS and
> > LDFLAGS to get LFS support on your OS. I think this is the direction
> > we should head.
>
> That sounds like a more clean solution. So, that will just
> automatically make off_t be as long as possible?
As long as possible to support LFS, which might not be "as long as
possible".
--
albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
