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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: gnulib largefile support |
| Date: | Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:38:29 -0700 |
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On 11/07/2011 01:30 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
Hello, After adding few modules to gnulib the gnutls-guile library had few failures in testsuite in some arm and mips systems. After some investigation[0] it seems that the issue was that the new gnulib modules were depending on largefile module which defines a 64-bit off_t even on 32-bit systems. Why adding getpass or fseek gnulib modules would enable largefile by default? Wouldn't it be better to add an option to enable it only in systems where it is desirable?
Large file support IS desirable on all platforms. GNU code should not have arbitrary limits, and a 2 gigabyte limit on file size is an arbitrary limit.
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