Linux + large-files

[Russ Allbery]

bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> In article <ylbsvfifn2.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> you write:

> | Anyway, yeah, Linux has the necessary pieces with more recent versions of
> | glibc.  I'm mostly waiting for the new autoconf to be released so that I
> | can just use its large file test rather than fiddling with the one in INN
> | more, but it should work if you tell it to do the same thing for Linux
> | that it does for HP-UX.

>   Once upon a time there was code to call some system program and get
> back the options needed to do large files. Can't we go back to that and
> test if large files are supported?

Turned out that said program only supported that option on Solaris.  It's
still being used on Solaris, but the other platforms don't do things that
way.

Large file support is tried for Linux in CURRENT, but I'm still hoping for
autoconf 2.50 which has a large-file macro built in that should do all of
the right things.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>