[Fontconfig] issue with _LARGE_FILES and AIX with version 2.11.92, not with 2.4.2

Michael Felt aixtools at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 15:13:09 PST 2015


yes, I was also thinking fun huh!

my server, actually the nas giving the iscsi, crashed, so I have a bit of
rebuilding to do.
On Mar 2, 2015 6:37 PM, "Michael Haubenwallner" <
michael.haubenwallner at ssi-schaefer.com> wrote:

> On 02/15/2015 09:34 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> > "/usr/include/unistd.h", line 171.17: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of
> lseek64 differs from previous declaration on line 169 of
> "/usr/include/unistd.h".
> > "/usr/include/unistd.h", line 171.17: 1506-050 (I) Return type "long
> long" in redeclaration is not compatible with the previous return type
> "long".
> <snip>
> > So, it seems there is an inaccurate assumption regarding the
> affect/interaction of _LARGE_FILES and _LARGE_FILE_API
> >
> > Looking at config.h.in <http://config.h.in> - it looks as it
> _LARGE_FILES was added to assist with AIX, and now it is getting the way
> (fun :p)
> >
> > I cannot find where the code for configure is generated. I suspect that
> - MAYBE - this was important for when
> > 32-bit hardware was out there (in 1997 64-bit file support was added to
> AIX 4.2.0 even though the kernel was
> > still 32-bit as well as 'normal' pointers.
> >
> > In any case - this was not a problem I encounter with fontconfig-2.4.2
> (ancient!!) but do now.
> >
> > Give me hints, and I shall test them (as I have time).
>
> This should be fixed along
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89336 now.
>
> /haubi/
>
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