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| author | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2012-02-16 09:50:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2012-02-16 09:50:05 +0000 |
| commit | 44b76a2e5aba72caff21321358b15e295e27ffba (patch) | |
| tree | 6c147c283d76f50b0d05562fab97d85d22c311d2 /Build/source/README.config | |
| parent | 190bcdd11d5e6d0ff307735398a36b7dabccfb53 (diff) | |
Add large file support (LFS) comment
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@25409 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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| -rw-r--r-- | Build/source/README.config | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/README.config b/Build/source/README.config index f065edc8903..44d73cd217e 100644 --- a/Build/source/README.config +++ b/Build/source/README.config @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Peter Breitenlohner <tex-live@tug.org> +Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Peter Breitenlohner <tex-live@tug.org> You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file. Configure options for the TeX Live (TL) build system @@ -76,8 +76,12 @@ Live build). 1.6. --disable-largefile ------------------------ -Omit support for large files (>=2GB). Unfortunately, largefile support -in the TeX engines remains buggy. +Omit large files support (LFS), needed for files >=2GB on most 32Bit Unix +systems. The size of DVI and GF files must always be <2GB. With LFS there +should be no limit on the size of PDF files created by pdfTeX or PS files +created by dvips. The size of PDF images included by pdfTeX must, however, +be <4GB when using xpdf and <2GB when using libpoppler (even on 64Bit +systems with LFS). 1.7. --without-x ---------------- |