Re: last days of htdig

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:

> I doubt it does, but that's just me.  Maybe it eventually boils
> down to a libstdc++ issue.  Though htdig uses a nice mixture of
> stdio and streams IIRC.

libstdc++ is the sort of external library there are likely to be problems
with - we don't build multiple versions with/without _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
(and there'd be the problem of selecting the correct one at link-time,
even if g++ were to force _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 like it forces _GNU_SOURCE
for other reasons).  zlib is another library that can often cause problems
in this way.

Libraries where you're expected to use `foolib-config --cflags` (or in
more modern versions `pkg-config --cflags library-name`) by contrast could
avoid that problem - if their authors had taken the initiative to force
large-files mode for that library and its users.

There's a lot to be said for NetBSD's choice of making off_t 64 bits
unconditionally regardless of whether on a 32-bit or 64-bit system.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk