Re: [Dump-devel] dump and largefiles

[Andrea A. <an...@su...>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:25:15PM +0100, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Anyway, I'll apply your patch, and I'll make an option to the 
> configure (--enable-largefile) which will trigger the addition
> of -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to the compile line.

I'd preferred if it was autodetected. If glibc supports lfs you
could enable it automatically if you want.

> Sometimes in the future, when all distributions will be 2.4 based,

Some distribution has LFS features by default even if 2.2.x based. So some
userbase would probably like to have it enabled by default, but ok it's not a
big deal to add --enable-largefile by hand :).

Andrea