Re: Re: self compiled bzip2 does not extract
Hi,
The general issue with large file support is that it is not existing in the
Hurd, but we have the stubs in glibc. So you can call the stat64 etc
functions, but they will always return ENOSUPP.
A good configure.in check for stat64 will notice that this is the case and
disable largefile support on those platforms.
Unfortunately, the current configure check doesn't. This is an important
bug, somebody should look into at and submit a report to the people
responsible for the default check (autoconf?), so that upstream software
will work.
For Debian, we can use a work around in the package build script.
The fileutils debian package works around like this in debian/rules:
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM)
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM), linux)
configure-flags =
else
configure-flags = --disable-largefile
endif
./configure --prefix=/usr --without-included-regex --enable-maintainer-mode -v $(configure-flags)
Marcus
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:57:00AM +0100, martin.stenzel@rz.hu-berlin.de wrote:
> Greetings. I see your message, but I can't
> suggest anything much.
> Sounds like a platform specific problem of
> some kind.
> I do know that bzip2 works ok, but without
> large file support
> and without copying file
> permissions/ownership, if you tell gcc
> -D_STRICT_ANSI, ie, stick to the letter of
> ANSI C89. Perhaps that
> could help?
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