On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Karl Berry wrote:

Here's the long answer:

Despite your laudable attempts at recompiling with largefile support, I
continue to believe this restriction is about compiler options and not
anything in dvips specifically.  The error message "dvips: Problems with
file writing; probably disk full." is given upon any output error.
There's no magic constant in dvips preventing >2gb output.

....

kpathsea/common.ac used to have AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, but we no longer use
that file.  There is no AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in any current configure that I
can see. ....

There is AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in m4/kpse-common.m4 used by virtually each
texk/*/configure.ac.

I also do not know if AC_SYS_LARGEFILE by itself is
sufficient, or if more changes to the source are necessary.

Certainly not.  At the very least you have to use fseeko/ftello/off_t.

In any event, as stated in Build, the relevant declarations in TeX are
still inconsistent.  That's a different (and highly nontrivial) bug.

I think it is about time to address this problem!

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner



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