commit c67f6a38b2a04469c99194c9bb7594233c917c21
parent 4096742b6e95c879444b004a92f4fa43e648abed
Author: tjg <tjg>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:06:42 +0000
Testing: remove test for large file support, as it causes
indigestion on file systems that don't support sparse files (thanks
Scott Schwartz).
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -826,3 +826,7 @@ Changes since rc-1.5b2
Testing: remove test for large file support, as it causes
indigestion on file systems that don't support sparse files (thanks
Scott Schwartz).
+
+2003-07-22
+
+ Release: rc-1.7.1.
diff --git 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
