[GRASS5] activated Large File Support LFS (default now)

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:23:23AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > I have submitted changes to 6.1-CVS:
> > A couple of tests have been added to configure and friends
> > for Large File Support (default now). LFS is needed
> > to read/write/manage large raster files. The magic compiler
> > flag is activated automatically now in lib/gis/Makefile.
> > 
> > ./configure ...
> > should report
> >   Large File Support (LFS):   yes
> > is your system supports it. Otherwise it will be
> > automatically disabled.
> > 
> > Of course there is a flag:
> > ./configure --help 2>&1 |grep large
> >   --disable-largefile     omit support for large files
> 
> I don't know why I didn't comment on this at the time, but the sense
> is wrong. Given that most of GRASS can't handle large files, it should
> default to disabled.

OK for me. 

But:
- no problems reported so far (AFAIK)
- if disabled by default we'll hardly discover where further
  fixes are missing (as nobody will use it)

Markus