Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/07/2011 03:02 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: On 11/07/2011 10:52 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: [CCing Ludovic. The thread starts at ] Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: Wouldn't it be better to add an option to enable it only

Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible skribis: > You are confusing trigger and cause. While a gnulib update *triggered* > a malfunction [1], the *cause* was a guile bug [2], and it was fixed in > guile 2.0 already two years ago [3]. I agree about the cause being a Guile bug. That said, if the change to _FILE

Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On 11/07/2011 10:52 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > [CCing Ludovic. The thread starts at > ] > Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to add an option to enable >> it only in systems where it is desirable? > Like Eric s

Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Bruno Haible
[CCing Ludovic. The thread starts at ] Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to add an option to enable > it only in systems where it is desirable? Like Eric said, large file support *is* desirable on all platfo

Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > Well, I can imagine a small embedded system where files and > streams cannot possibly be larger than 2 GiB. Yes, such as my router here: prompt> df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0 4475 3487 988 78% / /de

Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/07/11 12:38, Eric Blake wrote: > Large file support IS desirable on all platforms. Well, I can imagine a small embedded system where files and streams cannot possibly be larger than 2 GiB. On such a system it might be reasonable to use gnulib modules in small-file mode. If this is a real i

Re: gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/07/2011 01:30 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: Hello, After adding few modules to gnulib the gnutls-guile library had few failures in testsuite in some arm and mips systems. After some investigation[0] it seems that the issue was that the new gnulib modules were depending on largefile m

gnulib largefile support

2011-11-07 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
Hello, After adding few modules to gnulib the gnutls-guile library had few failures in testsuite in some arm and mips systems. After some investigation[0] it seems that the issue was that the new gnulib modules were depending on largefile module which defines a 64-bit off_t even on 32-bit systems.