From c67f6a38b2a04469c99194c9bb7594233c917c21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tjg Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:06:42 +0000 Subject: Testing: remove test for large file support, as it causes indigestion on file systems that don't support sparse files (thanks Scott Schwartz). --- INSTALL | 30 ++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 0014d23..6174223 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ descending order of usefulness. --with-editline This option tells rc to use the editline package (see the web page - for details) to provide EMACS style command line editing and history. - If the editline library is not installed in a standard place, you can - tell configure where to find it by setting the environment variable - LDFLAGS. For example, the maintainer builds rc by copying libedit.a - into the rc build directory and then running this configure command. + for details) to provide EMACS style command line editing and + history. If the editline library is not installed in a standard + place, you can tell configure where to find it by setting the + environment variable LDFLAGS. For example, you might copy libedit.a + into the rc source directory and then run this configure command. - LDFLAGS=-L. sh ../rc-1.5b3/configure --with-editline + LDFLAGS=-L. sh configure --with-editline --with-vrl @@ -141,24 +141,6 @@ implement Unix semantics (specifically permissions bits). This means that `make trip' is not useful under CygWin, for instance. -LARGE FILE SUPPORT - -This release of rc supports large files (i.e. with 64 bit offsets), on -systems where the configure script can figure out how to enable this. -When you run `make trip' (you always run `make trip', right?) the -penultimate line of output (before "trip complete") reports whether -large file support seems to be working or not. - -Large file support is a function of file systems, as well as -applications. For example, NFS and tmpfs file systems often do not -support large files. The test used by `make trip' is therefore -subject to false negatives. That is, a report that "large file -support seems NOT to be working" may be erroneous. To minimise this -possibility, the test is performed both in the current directory -(where you built rc) and /tmp. (I don't think there's any scenario -where a false positive can be reported.) - - BUILDING IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY If you have a suitable `make', you can build rc in a different directory -- cgit v1.2.3