Re: sort 5.93 on Fedora Core 5 exits if intermediate file reaches 2 GB

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:29:07AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Keith Stanley <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort
> > (version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the
> > temporary files reach the size of 2 GB. 
> 
> This sounds like you (or your installer) has built coreutils in
> "small-file mode", which supports files only up to 2 GiB.  The
> coreutils default is to build in "large-file mode", which doesn't have
> that limit.
> 
> If you built coreutils, please check the build and see why it was done
> in small-file mode.  You can look in config.h and check that it has a
> "#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64".  If it doesn't, find out why it
> doesn't.
> 
> If someone else built coreutils for you, please forward this message
> to them.

Another remote possibility is that a ulimit came into play, of
course.

For what it's worth, Fedora Core 5's coreutils package has this in the
build log for i386:

checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no

If the original reporter is having problems with the Fedora Core 5
RPM, it would greatly help for them to file a bug in Bugzilla:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Tim.
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