[GRASSLIST:5833] Re: 2GB+ in Grass 6.0

[Maciek Sieczka]

From: "Christian Ferreira" <christian.grass at gmail.com>

> GRASS 6.0 supports reading and writing large files (> 2GB) if it is
> possible in your operating system. If you compile with
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, you should be able to have raster maps which
> are larger than 2Gb.
>
> Did you tried this?

I wanted to try it but got stucked - I don't know how to input. In 
./configure or make? How?

Thanks
Maciek

DEVELOPERS:
Why isn't it enabled by default? Couldn't it be at least documented in
INSTALL?

Maciek