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Bug#990560: Error message "Value too large for defined data type"

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tag: hppa, lfs, patch

This bug usually indicates that a 32-bit application uses
functions like readdir() which (by default on a 32bit platform)
can only handle 32-bit values for inode numbers.
You can overcome that issue by recompiling the code while providing
"-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" on the gcc command line.

In this specific case I suggest to add the "future=+lfs" option
to debian/rules  like this (copy/pasted here - may not apply cleanly but you get the idea):

--- debian/rules       2022-12-13 17:30:09.631676544 +0000
+++ debian/rules.org   2022-12-13 17:56:43.086922122 +0000
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@

  # Workaround an issue with PIC/PIE on certain architectures (c.f., #942798)
  ifneq (,$(filter x32,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+  DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all,-pie future=+lfs
-  DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all,-pie
  else
+  DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all future=+lfs
-  DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all
  endif

This option enables large file support (LFS) generally. On 64-bit
platforms the aove future-flag is a no-op.

By the way, I think you couldn't reproduce the issue on i386, because
you probably didn't used a huge hard disc there. The issue only arises
sometimes if the searched/read file is above the 32-bit boundary on disc.

Dear subversion maintainers:
Please add the future option.

(I noticed that bug too, because for me "git" package failed to compile,
because it uses subversions in it's tests and subversion there ran into
this "Value too large" problem.)

Helge

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Bug#990560: Error message "Value too large for defined data type" Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2022-12-13 19:20 +0100
  Bug#990560: Error message "Value too large for defined data type" James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> - 2022-12-16 23:30 +0100
    Bug#990560: Error message "Value too large for defined data type" Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> - 2022-12-17 11:10 +0100

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