#124 need gcc option for huge input files

[Ed Spittles]

Hi Trevor
I'm not sure if you intend to support input files over 2G in size, but they don't work for me (on linux)

What happens is that the call to stat() in file_exists() fails. It's fine for a normal-sized file.

However, if I add an option to gcc in the src/Makefile:
CC = gcc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
then it does seem to work.

I'm afraid I don't know how one should fix this in a configure-friendly way.

Cheers
Ed

[Trevor Williams]

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Ed,

I believe the appropriate way to fix this in a configure-friendly way is to specify

AC_SYS_LARGEFILE

in the configure.in file. Then run autoconf and do a 'configure' to rebuild the build files. If everything works as advertised, you should see _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 defined in config.h.

Let me know if this works on your end. I have modified the appropriate files in my CVS view, but I don't have an input file large enough to test it.

Thanks,
Trevor

[Ed Spittles]

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Thanks for the tip - I'll give this a go on the 13th/14th (I'm away until then)

Cheers
Ed

[Trevor Williams]

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Added AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to configure.in which defines the appropriate defines needed for
reading in files larger than 2GB. Change has been made to CVS development branch and will be made available in a 0.5.1 stable release as well.

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