From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-devhelp@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "de Almeida, Valmor F." <dealmeidav@ornl.gov>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-devhelp] gdbm ebuild with 64bit off_t
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:17:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801260517.14278.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D2D7D9FE2492524A925313E2D82E1B53078573BB@ORNLEXCHANGE.ornl.gov>
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On Friday 25 January 2008, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier@gentoo.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:33 PM
> >
> > > Never dealt with ebuild files before; did some reading and then
> > >
> > > cd /usr/portage/sys-libs/gdbm/
> > > ebuild gdbm-1.8.3-r3.ebuild digest
> > > emerge gdbm
> > >
> > > Noticed that gcc now uses
> > >
> > > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> >
> > ok ... but does that solve your problem ?
>
> Yes, this does solve gdbm's problem. I tried the newly emerged gdbm and
> was able to create large data bases beyond the ~2GB file size limit. I
> generated 3.1GB databases and twice as large.
>
> Will the ebuild change be a part of future ebuild versions?
>
> I have exchanged e-mails with the gdbm maintainer and he said databases
> written with 32bit off_t will not be read/modified by gdbm when compiled
> with 64bit off_t.
that's because you're only changing how gdbm interfaces with the C library.
you arent changing the gdbm API/ABI.
-mike
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-23 2:59 [gentoo-devhelp] gdbm ebuild with 64bit off_t de Almeida, Valmor F.
2008-01-23 4:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-23 4:32 ` de Almeida, Valmor F.
2008-01-23 5:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-23 13:10 ` de Almeida, Valmor F.
2008-01-23 15:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-23 21:48 ` de Almeida, Valmor F.
2008-01-23 22:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-25 17:57 ` de Almeida, Valmor F.
2008-01-26 10:17 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2008-01-27 16:43 ` de Almeida, Valmor F.
2008-01-27 18:14 ` Mike Frysinger
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