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- This file is part of bzip2/libbzip2, a program and library for
- lossless, block-sorting data compression.
- bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.8 of 13 July 2019
- Copyright (C) 1996-2019 Julian Seward <jseward@acm.org>
- Please read the WARNING, DISCLAIMER and PATENTS sections in the
- README file.
- This program is released under the terms of the license contained
- in the file LICENSE.
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- bzip2 should compile without problems on the vast majority of
- platforms. Using the supplied Makefile, I've built and tested it
- myself for x86-linux and amd64-linux. With makefile.msc, Visual C++
- 6.0 and nmake, you can build a native Win32 version too. Large file
- support seems to work correctly on at least on amd64-linux.
- When I say "large file" I mean a file of size 2,147,483,648 (2^31)
- bytes or above. Many older OSs can't handle files above this size,
- but many newer ones can. Large files are pretty huge -- most files
- you'll encounter are not Large Files.
- Early versions of bzip2 (0.1, 0.9.0, 0.9.5) compiled on a wide variety
- of platforms without difficulty, and I hope this version will continue
- in that tradition. However, in order to support large files, I've had
- to include the define -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the Makefile. This
- can cause problems.
- The technique of adding -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to get large file
- support is, as far as I know, the Recommended Way to get correct large
- file support. For more details, see the Large File Support
- Specification, published by the Large File Summit, at
- http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file
- As a general comment, if you get compilation errors which you think
- are related to large file support, try removing the above define from
- the Makefile, ie, delete the line
- BIGFILES=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
- from the Makefile, and do 'make clean ; make'. This will give you a
- version of bzip2 without large file support, which, for most
- applications, is probably not a problem.
- Alternatively, try some of the platform-specific hints listed below.
- You can use the spewG.c program to generate huge files to test bzip2's
- large file support, if you are feeling paranoid. Be aware though that
- any compilation problems which affect bzip2 will also affect spewG.c,
- alas.
- AIX: I have reports that for large file support, you need to specify
- -D_LARGE_FILES rather than -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. I have not tested
- this myself.
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