On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Christian Hudon wrote: > I went to have a look at the Info-zip FAQ page, and the method used > in Chris Chiappa's patch is mentionned for handling zip files less > than 2GB that create uncompressed data files between 2GB and > 4GB. From http://www.info-zip.org/FAQ.html#limits: > > > In the short term, it is possible to improve Zip and UnZip's > > capabilities slightly on certain Linux systems (and probably other > > Unix-like systems) by recompiling with the *-DLARGEFILE_SOURCE > > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64* options. This will allow the utilities to > > handle uncompressed data files greater than 2 GB in size, as long > > as the total size of the archive containing them is less than 2 > > GB. > > Since this method seems to have an official blessing from upstream, could you > please apply it to the Debian package so I can unzip these zip files that > Windows people send me and seem to have no trouble creating.
Ok, this has convinced me. I'm going to add compiler flags for LFS as they are blessed by upstream. For the other changes suggested (like those in the patch by Paul), please test unzip 6.0. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
