64-bit stat (or not) in 32-bit Fedora binaries

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Wed Feb 20 14:05:43 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:01:30AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> The first option on the table should be patching upstreams, not hacking
> around it in RPM or changing the default.
> 
> With autoconf, all you need is to add AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to configure.ac,
> and assuming no source changes are necessary (note: not always the
> case), then you're good.

I agree, and using the LFS transitional interfaces (stat64 etc) is not 
hard either when _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is not desirable.

Regards, Joe


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