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14.2 Large File Support

This module provides support for files 2 GiB and larger, or with device or inode numbers exceeding 32 bits. To this effect, it attempts to ensure that types like off_t and ino_t are 64-bit, at least on the following platforms: glibc, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC.

If the types cannot be made 64-bit, configure issues a warning and proceeds.

This module gives configure an option ‘--disable-largefile’ that suppresses support for large files. This may be useful if the package links to other libraries whose user-facing ABIs still require off_t or most other file-related types to be 32-bit on your platform.

This module also adds to configure an option --enable-year2038, needed on some platforms to access files with timestamps past the year 2038. See Avoiding the year 2038 problem.