wget <= 1.10.2 in 3. -> sign error?

Hello,

I just tried to download a file of some 3 gigs from a
foreign server
using wget.  On both a 3.9+ (snapshot shortly after tagging)
and 3.8
machine, wget crashes. On the 3.9+ machine, it worked like
this:

Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.so
#0  0x063c39b9 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.39.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x063c39b9 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.39.0
#1  0x06400093 in abort () at
/usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/abort.c:65
#2  0x1c014bb5 in http_loop ()
#3  0x1c01cd8c in retrieve_url ()
#4  0x1c018dd5 in main ()

and looking into the protocol for the 3.8 machine yields
this:

Length: -1,585,934,797 [application/x-tar]


Refering to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354989
I went to look into config.log to find

ac_cv_sys_large_files=no
ac_cv_sys_largefile_CC=no
ac_cv_sys_largefile_source=no

despite this being version 1.10... what gives?



Best,
--Toni++

Toni Mueller dixit:

>I just tried to download a file of some 3 gigs

wget is not designed to do it. If it works, sheer luck.
The internal code uses 32-bit variables all over the place.

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Le Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:50:14PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser
ecrivait :
>Toni Mueller dixit:
>>I just tried to download a file of some 3 gigs
>
>wget is not designed to do it. If it works, sheer luck.

  ACK.
  
  Try curl instead. Way better and it has no issue with
large files.

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Hello,

On Mon, 27.03.2006 at 21:50:14 +0000, Thorsten Glaser
<tgmirbsd.de> wrote:
> Toni Mueller dixit:
> >I just tried to download a file of some 3 gigs
> wget is not designed to do it. If it works, sheer luck.
> The internal code uses 32-bit variables all over the
place.

so you say: Despite its claim of being able to download
large files, it
really does so only on occasion?


Besides that, large file support isn't detected by the
OpenBSD port.

And fwiw, shortly after posting the question, I started over
with
curl anyway, just wanted to ask, and take note.


Best,
--Toni++