[RFC] Reduce namespace pollution on zlib.h

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Apr 1 21:22:46 UTC 2010


Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> writes:
> I will merge an upstream change from zlib, which basically unexpose
> LFS stuff on FreeBSD, and I plan to keep the off_t bits == 64.
> However, I would highly recommend ports maintainers to push upstream
> fix for LFS64 definition removal since they are wrong on FreeBSD

LFS64 is not correct on Linux either; just #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
before #include <sys/stat.h> and use struct stat / stat() as usual.  The
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE autoconf macro takes care of that for you, provided you
remember to #include "config.h" in your code.

DES
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