Re: [exim] 2GB limitation on Solaris

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Author: Juan Bernhard
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To: exim-users
CC: jh
Subject: Re: [exim] 2GB limitation on Solaris
Thanks Jacob! Its working now. I also had to modify the line
ARCHTYPE=i386 to ARCHTYPE=amd64 in the file
build-SunOS5-5.10-i386/Makefile file.
Thank you all for your help.

Regards,
     Juan.


El 08/01/2010 05:01, Jakob Hirsch escribió:
> On 07.01.2010 19:22, Juan Bernhard wrote:
>
>
>> Hi John, thanks for your answer, but Solaris 10 (this problem was on
>> Solaris 9) can handle larger files than 2gb, the restriction isn't on
>> the ufs. The first thing I tried was '$cat 500mb-file>> 2gb-file'
>>
> I don't know much about Solaris, but on GNU/Linux you need to compile
> applications with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE if they
> should be able to handle files> 2GiB. These flags are already used in
> OS/Makefile-GNU, -Linux etc., so it depends on which Makefile you use to
> compile Exim.
>
>
>> I really need to know what "defer (27)" means, so I can start looking to
>> that. I couldn't find this on the user manual.
>>
> This is already answered, but I doubt that it helps you with anything.
> It's just the code from errno, the human readable description is printed
> just after it (as received from strerror()).
>