scp doesn't work with large (>2GB) files

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

[..]
> Yes, indeed. Can this go into the next release? adding a CFLAG of
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for systems like Linux would be fine. In the
> mean time, I'll add it by hand to the debian/rules file.
>

Does this adversity affect older than 2.2 and below kernels?  If not then
I will enable it in the configure.in by default for Linux.

- Ben