On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:55:53AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Michael Haardt wrote:
> > That's Linux for you, other Unices solved this issue better. Anyway,
> > just compiling Exim with
> > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> > on Linux should solve the 2GB problem without any source modifications.
> Should that be the default setting, included in the standard Linux
> config files?
[...]
Afaict from reading <http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html> it is
the easiest way. (Using O_LARGEFILE for open() or defining
_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE and switching to open64()
et.al. both seems to be a lot of work.) - I do not know about LFS with
non-Linux.
cu andreas
