On 1/7/06, Georgios Tsarouchas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I 've found out that compiling unzip following the BLFS instructions gives me > a binary that can't proccess a file greater than 2Gbyte. After a little > searching i found out that this has to with the C library's fseek() using 32 > bit integrers for file offsets. > > The size limit could be expanded to 4 GB byte using "-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" > during compiling of unzip. This one works on my system (Athlon XP 1600+) > > Would be the case of adding the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the LOCAL_UNZIP > variable of the book? These days is easy to find large zipped files around > and the current unzip can't handle them. >
Looks good to me. I had no problems compiling with the switch, did not test it on a 4GB file but I will take your word for it. Unless there are any objections I will commit the change tomorrow. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
