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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:26:53 +0200
From: Paul Onyschuk <ptmelville@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Portability of fts() functions
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 23:59:19 +0200
Ingo Schwarze wrote:

> Oh you mean if mandoc is compiled on a 32bit glibc platform with 32bit
> off_t but more than 2 billion files in one file system or files larger
> than 2 GB inside a manual tree, mandoc will compile all right,
> but i may crash at runtime due to the broken fts(3) implementation
> contained in glibc?  Did i get that right?

I think you got it right.

> I'm not sure what i could do about that - both in the long term
> and as a quick fix for this release.  What would you suggest?

There isn't much you to do about for time now I guess.  Explanation in
readme and  that "BUILD_TARGETS += db-build" won't compile on systems
without fts(3) would do.

> Indeed, that sounds bad.
> 
> I guess i won't change that for this release, though.  I worry that
> if we are very unlucky, whatever guard i put in there might break
> on another system that was already tested and may not be tested
> again.
> 
> For the next release, i have to keep this in mind.
> I might do some more cleanup related to configure, anyway.

What about something like that before 'set -e':

echo "/* RUNNING ./CONFIGURE - SHOULD BE USED ONLY VIA MAKE, READ INSTALL */"

Maybe that would be enough? 

-- 
Paul Onyschuk
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