[PATCH] enable LFS support by default

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:44:25PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Of course I understand LFS.  I don't understand what you think is wrong nor
> what you think you are fixing.  Those are what need to precede any patch.
> 
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 might be intractable for strace.  It needs to decode
> the 32-bit struct stat et al formats in the syscalls that use them.  In the
> case of stat, I guess it's a different kernel struct declaration for Linux
> anyway.  But I'm not sure that is true of all the LFS-affected types.
> 
> You need to explain what you are attempting to gain from using
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.

I suppose that this change attempts to fix
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29729
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=385310
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=845946&group_id=2861&atid=102861

Unfortunately, it doesn't fix them.


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