Re: MC on Solaris

[Maksym Polyakov <polyama yahoo com>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hi, Maksym!
>
> Thank you for your information!  It's very important to know that MC can
> be compiled by compilers other than gcc and that it compiles in 64-bit
> environment.
>
> I have just committed a patch that makes it possible to compile the CVS
> version of MC on Solaris (tested on Intel Solaris 8 only).  Note that the
> large file support is now default.
>
> I'll appreciate if you check that the current snapshot from
> http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/ compiles on your systems.


Will try on weekend

> I'm not surprized that MC without large file support has problems with
> large files or "large sets" of files. 


My point was that copy progress indicator behaves *identically* (with 
the same error) on large files/large groups of files *with* and 
*without* large files support (mc compiled with 64bit compiler)

Although I do not think this bug is crucial. (I'm happy to be able to 
see large files now)

> I have no plans to fix it since
> large file support is now default and people using --disable-largefile
> should get what they want - less code and less emulated arithmetics.



--
Best regards,
Maksym Polyakov


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