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From: Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net>
To: James Holden <james-dated-1092333211.8a1089@×××××××××××.net>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Large File Support
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 18:00:51
Message-Id: 20040809180011.GD16544@lakedaemon.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Large File Support by James Holden
1 James Holden (gentoo@×××××××××××.net) scribbled:
2 > I'm having some problems with large file support on my Sparc64 Gentoo box.
3 >
4 > I have some >2GB DVD images on my box, which I copied off my other
5 > machine (running IRIX) over NFS so I know kernel support for large files
6 > is working.
7 >
8 > I'm trying to get the Debian testing DVD images using net-misc/jigdo,
9 > but when it creates the temporary image file it wimps out at 2GB,
10 > complaining about "File size limit exceeded".
11 >
12 > I've rebuilt net-misc/jigdo with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
13 > - -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE in CFLAGS, but I still get the
14 > error.
15
16 Did you check in the source to see that those flags actually change
17 something, eg fopen() calls should add the O_LARGEFILE flag...
18
19 Do other programs work with files >2GB?
20
21 Cooper.
22
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Large File Support James Holden <gentoo@×××××××××××.net>