Bug#888566: vim FTBFS on alpha: vim segfaults in the build

[James McCoy]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 02:37:21PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 05:50:16PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> > [snip useful details]
> > 
> > Four of those bytes difference are due to the field b_ino in the
> > struct (of type ino_t).  And indeed examining the build log [1]
> > one sees option.c is compiled with -DFILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 but
> > misc1.c is NOT compiled with that option, hence the difference
> > in offsets to fields in the buf_T struct.
> 
> It looks like you came to the same conclusion as we did in #827319.  Vim
> uses autoconf's AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to determine whether _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
> needs to be set (and decides it doesn't), however the Perl bindings
> always force _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64[0].

[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827319#118

Cheers,
-- 
James
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