Bug#636651: libapache2-mod-perl2: FTBFS with perl 5.14: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS stripped from CFLAGS

[Russ Allbery]

Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:

> If I understand this correctly, we have libapr built without large file
> support and perl built with large file support. Now, mod_perl2 used to
> do without LFS and still work with perl, but that's not the case with
> Perl 5.14 anymore.

It certainly seems wrong for APR to be built without large file support,
although maybe there are API transition issues that would have to be
sorted out if that were changed?  My understanding is that there is a
general goal in Debian to build all packages with large file support.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>