From 44b76a2e5aba72caff21321358b15e295e27ffba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Breitenlohner Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:50:05 +0000 Subject: Add large file support (LFS) comment git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@25409 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- Build/source/README.config | 10 +++++++--- 1 file 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 +Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Peter Breitenlohner 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 ---------------- -- cgit v1.2.3