All, > Thanks for all the testing of my recent patched version. Good to hear > that it works..
Yep, thanks for all for the great cooperation and feedback, > BUT based on the tests by Stephen and Dieter I now recommend that in > the 2.4.7-7 unstable version, the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE flags are enabled on all platforms including > powerpc, because without them writing a >2GB archive should not work > (according to my limited understanding so far of the large file > support documentation). Fully agreed. I'll remove the conditional expression in the Makefile, i.e. ship your Makefile with the two flags enabled on all platforms. Dirk -- Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement. -- Fred Brooks