libboost-dev Boost library compiled for 32bit architecture without long file support

Roger Pack rogerpack2005 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 13:50:20 UTC 2009


Appears that on 32-bit ubuntu [at least as of Jaunty]

libboost-dev is compiled without long file support, thus limited to 2 GB files.

This isn't ideal when some libraries wish to deal with those large
files (ex: fusecompress [1]).  It requires users to recompile boost
locally.

Thanks!

[1] http://github.com/tex/fusecompress




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