Bug#656869: perl: MAXPATHLEN set too small

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:38:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:

...
> On GNU/Hurd, _POSIX_PATH_MAX is defined, as required by Posix, to the
> minimal supported path size, 256. MAXPATHLEN ends up being already
> defined to 256 even before bsd_glob.c hacks around it.
> 
> This behavior, while safe, is too conservative: If no maximum is
> specified, there is none, and 256 is not very big by nowadays standard,
> as bug 645552 shows :)

I've now uploaded a fix to experimental. I'd be grateful if you could
confirm whether it fixes your evolution build.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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