[systemd-devel] build problems without largefile support

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 06.06.13 10:10, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> > The constants for T/P/E don't fit in a 23bit off_t. That's why largefile
> > was introduced in the first place.
> > I'm not sure how to fix this. Maybe just use 'ifdef' and not support those
> > formats?
> 
> Humm, so is --disable-largefile really something we want to support? I
> mean, this just sounds like a major source of headaches. We are in 2013
> nowadays, I am pretty sure you cannot build any of the Linux kernel file
> systems with support for 32bit or less file sizes.
> 
> I'd be happy to take a patch which causes configure to fail if
> --disable-largefile is passed...

I've added such a patch now.

Lennart

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