[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] First official Win32 release
Martin Ebourne
boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Fri Jan 27 01:30:38 GMT 2006
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:30 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Please have a look at the branch I created for SSL keepalives, and let me
> know if there's anything blocking it from inclusion:
>
> svn diff -r 323:326 \
> http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/svn/box/chris/diff-timeout-and-ssl-keepalive
I've read through that diff, all looks plausible to me.
> As far as I know, large files (>4Gb) are simply not supported by the MinGW
> compiler using the standard C library functions. One has to replace them
> with Windows-specific functions, and I haven't had time to do that yet.
>
> Also, autoconf detects that large file support is not available (off_t
> remains 4 bytes long), and I haven't figured out how to work around
> that yet.
I take it the windows specific functions don't use off_t? If so then
detect the windows functions, and make AC_SYS_LARGEFILE conditional on
their absence. If present then just set the largefile define(s).
Cheers,
Martin.
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