Supporting statvfs64 on 32-bit architectures, and long long?

Richard Kettlewell rjk at terraraq.uk
Mon Jan 22 17:04:51 UTC 2024


On 22/01/2024 17:01, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell <rjk at terraraq.uk> writes:
>> On 21/01/2024 22:47, Julien ÉLIE wrote:
> 
>>> Yet, the Autoconf macro AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is used, and does not set that
>>> flag.  I would have expected it to.  Is someone aware of a particular
>>> trick to enable these 64-bit functions on 32-bit architectures?
> 
>> Did you use ./configure --enable-largefiles? It defaults to no for some
>> reason.
> 
> We made it default to off for backward compatibility because it
> invalidates most of the existing data files when you change it.  We
> probably should make it default to on at some point, but it's a major
> version sort of thing.

Makes sense!

ttfn/rjk



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