Re: clean-temp and large files

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake asks: > > Should we just make GL_EARLY always invoke AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, so > > that any application that uses gnulib automatically also supports large > > files? Yes. The 32-bit off_t is nowadays only historical baggage. There is normally no good reason to _not_ use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE. I'd

Re: clean-temp and large files

2007-01-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake-1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should we just make GL_EARLY always invoke AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, so > that any application that uses gnulib automatically also supports large > files? Won't that be overkill for applications (probably libraries) that don't do any file I/O? 'configure' is bl

Re: clean-temp and large files

2007-01-04 Thread Eric Blake-1
E these > days. Should we just make GL_EARLY always invoke AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, so that any application that uses gnulib automatically also supports large files? -- Eric Blake -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/clean-temp-and-large-files-tf2883778.html#a8167594 Sent from th

Re: clean-temp and large files

2007-01-04 Thread Paul Eggert
"Bruno Haible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was assuming that invoking AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is the programmer's > responsibility, because AC_SYS_LARGEFILE is a global switch. Yes, that was my assumption too. However, as you mentioned, any portable program that accesses files should use AC_SYS_LAR

Re: clean-temp and large files

2007-01-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > Is there any reason that using the clean-temp module does not AC_REQUIRE > ([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE]) in the configure script? Without that, it is possible > on some hosts that temporary files are artificially capped at 2GiB, even > though enabling largefile support could make things

Re: clean-temp and large files

2007-01-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 12/26/2006 2:34 PM: > Is there any reason that using the clean-temp module does not AC_REQUIRE > ([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE]) in the configure script? Without that, it is possible > on > some hosts that temporary files are artific

clean-temp and large files

2006-12-26 Thread Eric Blake
Is there any reason that using the clean-temp module does not AC_REQUIRE ([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE]) in the configure script? Without that, it is possible on some hosts that temporary files are artificially capped at 2GiB, even though enabling largefile support could make things behave otherwise. As a