Merge branch 'fc/macos-x-clipped-write'

Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of
bytes.

* fc/macos-x-clipped-write:
  compate/clipped-write.c: large write(2) fails on Mac OS X/XNU

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1a31f65bfd..4bbb2583ec 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ all::
 # Define NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS if your implementation of msgfmt
 # doesn't support GNU extensions like --check and --statistics
 #
+# Define NEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE if your write(2) cannot write more than
+# INT_MAX bytes at once (e.g. MacOS X).
+#
 # Define HAVE_PATHS_H if you have paths.h and want to use the default PATH
 # it specifies.
 #
@@ -1465,6 +1468,11 @@ ifndef NO_MSGFMT_EXTENDED_OPTIONS
 	MSGFMT += --check --statistics
 endif
 
+ifdef NEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNEEDS_CLIPPED_WRITE
+	COMPAT_OBJS += compat/clipped-write.o
+endif
+
 ifneq (,$(XDL_FAST_HASH))
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DXDL_FAST_HASH
 endif