Bug#645790: hurd-i386: enable LFS

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 07:13:22PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> at the moment, perl is compiled on GNU/Hurd without large file support.
> This, other than the lacking of support for files > 2 GB, causes the
> failure in the t/op/stat.t test.
> The failure in stat.t happens because of the following: when filtering
> devices in /dev/* using grep {} with -b/-c, stat fails for large
> devices such as /dev/hdX blocks, or /dev/zero chars (this latter case
> should be an Hurd-specific issue, but shouldn't matter for this case),
> hence the counts done with grep {} and the ones done filtering the
> output of `ls' don't match.
> 
> The attached patch enables the LFS using the same way used on linux.sh;
> about t/op/lfs.t, it gets skipped at the "kernel/fs not configured to
> use large files?" check, although it correctly detects sparse files and
> (at least by looking at the disk usage) allocates the 5GB (or so) file
> created with system() in that test.
> 
> The patch has been tested with perl 5.14 (experimental), as I guess it
> will replace perl 5.12 sometime soon (no?).

Thanks for the patch. I'm testing this on bleadperl now and will
forward upstream prior to applying locally, using your message above
in the commit log.

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