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From: leo@krabat.marco.de (Matthias Pfaller)
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Subject: Re: __NetBSD__ X11R6 i386
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Date: 2 Aug 94 12:31:26 GMT
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Bakul Shah (bakul@netcom.com) wrote:
> Andrew Wheadon (andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de) writes:
> > When making World it's failing after trying to create a new Makefile
> > with the compiled imake. It fails with both gnumake and bsdmake.

> This is due to the 64 bit off_t type in NetBSD-current.  To fix
> this you need to either have a proper lseek() declaration in
> imake.c's scope, or a quick and dirty fix is to just  use a
> (off_t) in the lseek call in imake.c.  BTW, this is the same fix

The problem is indeed the 64 bit off_t, but you don't need the proper
lseek() declaration but the proper ftruncate declaration. Anyway, thank's
for the hint. It put me on the right track...

	Matthias (leo@marco.de)