Large files support on FreeBSD

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Thu Mar 26 19:07:33 UTC 2009


Hi Russ,

>> overview/api............MISSED 49-75 (killed by signal 10, core dumped)
>> overview/buffindexed....MISSED 1-21 (exit status 1)
>> util/inndf..............MISSED 5-6 (exit status 1)
>>
>> All of them because of an error similar to this one:
>>
>>    cant create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
>>    buffindexed: ovinitdisks: cant create shmem for ov-tmp/buffer len 16384: Function not implemented
>>    Opening the overview database failed, cannot continue
>>    Bus error: 10 (core dumped)
>
> Shared memory isn't available on that system.  It looks like (from those
> tests) that buffindexed requires SysV shared memory to work properly.

That's right:  shared memory was disabled on that news server.
We can therefore ignore these missed tests.


> The right solution is probably to just delete lib/strerror.c, the Autoconf
> probe for strerror, and the corresponding test case.  I don't bother
> shipping a replacement for strerror in any of my packages any more.

Just done.

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Julien ÉLIE

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