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| author | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2013-02-19 19:29:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2013-02-19 19:29:48 +0100 |
| commit | 8388b4f7365acecb2725babb7577759f054ce38d (patch) | |
| tree | 020175daaa8a20db2a23d21964670eefbabb1e60 | |
| parent | 8535f69e03c0167c99a62ab9077d8413162399dc (diff) | |
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Update comment with info about why this exists.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.buildsystem/7727
| -rw-r--r-- | kde-modules/KDECompilerSettings.cmake | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kde-modules/KDECompilerSettings.cmake b/kde-modules/KDECompilerSettings.cmake index 05d26b16..16f8c858 100644 --- a/kde-modules/KDECompilerSettings.cmake +++ b/kde-modules/KDECompilerSettings.cmake @@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ endif() if (UNIX) set ( _KDE4_PLATFORM_DEFINITIONS ${_KDE4_PLATFORM_DEFINITIONS} -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE) -# are there platforms where this is not the case ? + # This flag is needed in order to be able to support files > 2GB even on + # 32bit platforms. The default is to use the non-64bit aware syscalls on + # 32bit platforms, which makes every application to SIGXFSZ (which is + # equivalent to a crash) when they see or touch a file > 2GB. check_cxx_source_compiles(" #include <sys/types.h> /* Check that off_t can represent 2**63 - 1 correctly. |