Split -b Question

[Luke Hassell]

Hello coreutils team,

I have been experiencing a problem with GNU split, and unfortunately, with
the 5.0 release of coreutils, it still seems to be there.

The issue for me is to split files at the > 2GB boundary.  The problem
exists on Linux 2.4:

   $ split -b 2500000000 bigfile
   split: 2500000000: invalid number of bytes
   Try `split --help' for more information.
   $ split --version
   split (coreutils) 5.0
   Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.

The same occurs when compiled on Solaris 8.  When I compile
coreutils on Linux, I see this in the configure output:

checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no

I must have missed something obvious.  If anyone has had any
luck with large files using split, would you please pass a few
pointers my way?

Thanks in advance,

Luke