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.
> 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?
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