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2 This file is part of bzip2/libbzip2, a program and library for
3 lossless, block-sorting data compression.
5 bzip2/libbzip2 version 1.0.5 of 10 December 2007
6 Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Julian Seward <jseward@bzip.org>
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15 bzip2-1.0.5 should compile without problems on the vast majority of
16 platforms. Using the supplied Makefile, I've built and tested it
17 myself for x86-linux and amd64-linux. With makefile.msc, Visual C++
18 6.0 and nmake, you can build a native Win32 version too. Large file
19 support seems to work correctly on at least on amd64-linux.
21 When I say "large file" I mean a file of size 2,147,483,648 (2^31)
22 bytes or above. Many older OSs can't handle files above this size,
23 but many newer ones can. Large files are pretty huge -- most files
24 you'll encounter are not Large Files.
26 Early versions of bzip2 (0.1, 0.9.0, 0.9.5) compiled on a wide variety
27 of platforms without difficulty, and I hope this version will continue
28 in that tradition. However, in order to support large files, I've had
29 to include the define -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the Makefile. This
32 The technique of adding -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to get large file
33 support is, as far as I know, the Recommended Way to get correct large
34 file support. For more details, see the Large File Support
35 Specification, published by the Large File Summit, at
37 http://ftp.sas.com/standards/large.file
39 As a general comment, if you get compilation errors which you think
40 are related to large file support, try removing the above define from
41 the Makefile, ie, delete the line
43 BIGFILES=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
45 from the Makefile, and do 'make clean ; make'. This will give you a
46 version of bzip2 without large file support, which, for most
47 applications, is probably not a problem.
49 Alternatively, try some of the platform-specific hints listed below.
51 You can use the spewG.c program to generate huge files to test bzip2's
52 large file support, if you are feeling paranoid. Be aware though that
53 any compilation problems which affect bzip2 will also affect spewG.c,
56 AIX: I have reports that for large file support, you need to specify
57 -D_LARGE_FILES rather than -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. I have not tested