Large file system support in 2.1.2 (was Re: [Python-Dev] release for 2.1.2, plus 2.2.1...) (original) (raw)

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:45:00 -0500

"MvL" == Martin v Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:

MvL> I'd strongly advise against putting that into the
MvL> documentation. There are numerous assignments to CC inside
MvL> configure.in, which would override this setting. Setting OPT
MvL> and CFLAGS is the right way to pass these configuration
MvL> options.

>> I'll leave it up to others to decide what to change,
>>  Documentation?

MvL> Please, not the way Barry proposes.

Here's another suggestion: add a make variable that isn't used or anything else, has a default empty value, and is used to create the compilation command. Let's say $LARGEFILE.

Then the configure command would be

% LARGEFILE='-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ./configure

and that should work on all shells, and without having to permanently export a variable to the environment, which I think we should avoid recommending.

-Barry