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On Tuesday 22 January 2008, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: |
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> Would it be possible for the gdbm ebuild allow for a 64bit size off_t |
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> option? |
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this isnt really an ebuild issue. the toolchain transparently changes off_t |
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and friends to the 64bit versions when using LFS flags in CPPFLAGS. |
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> The reason is that as it stands now, gdbm-1.8.3-r3 on 32bit machines can |
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> only work with data base files of about 2 GB since off_t is 4 bytes. If |
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> gdbm is built with off_t size equal to 8 bytes, it will handle much |
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> larger database files. |
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can you describe the issue you're looking a bit more ? |
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> It would be helpful if there were a USE 64bit option for emerging gdbm. |
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mmm, that's not the way to approach this issue |
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-mike |