Re: [Cscope-devel] cscope bug (sort of)

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 20.06.2013 01:17, Tom...@l-... wrote:
> I’ve been using cscope for many years now, and love it.
>
> I recently ran into a problem with using cscope on a cifs-mounted
> filesystem (a Windows share).  lstat() did not fail, but returned a
> completely false stat structure.
>
> It turns out that on my Ubuntu system I need to compile cscope with the
> following CFLAGS:
>
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
>
> There are no large files involved, but the inode is bigger than 32 bits,
> which causes all sorts of problems.
>
> I’d fix it myself, but have no idea where this information would go…

The canonical approach would be to put AC_SYS_LARGEFILE into 
configure.in.  Full large file support would require some thorough 
rework of the file position handling, though, which might easily break 
more than it fixes.