Follow-up Comment #10, bug #63330 (project make): Wow I'm REALLY confused. I've examined the config.log file you provided and I can't make heads or tails of it. There is no reference anywhere in that file, to checking for largefile support. This likely explains why it's not enabled on this system.
Just to be clear, you did download the official source build from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-4.4.tar.gz right? Or, did you create the package yourself from Git? Can you run md5sum on the downloaded package and the "configure" script in the directory; I get: d7575a26a94ee8427130e9db23cdaa78 make-4.4.tar.gz 3d5221bb26db5cfa8b297738320f33b3 make-4.4/configure When I look at your log file, I see this: configure:6535: checking for ranlib configure:6556: found /usr/ccs/bin/ranlib configure:6567: result: ranlib configure:6647: checking for size_t Right in between the check for ranlib and the check for size_t, is where the check for largefile support is supposed to be. Not only is there no output for it here, but the line numbers in the script are such that it doesn't seem like there's even any space in the configure script where this might be run! When I run configure from make-4.4 on my system, I get this: configure:6506: checking for ranlib configure:6527: found /usr/bin/ranlib configure:6538: result: ranlib configure:6572: checking for special C compiler options needed for large files configure:6620: result: no configure:6626: checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files configure:6652: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 configure:6652: $? = 0 configure:6687: result: no configure:6962: checking for size_t Note that it does do the check, and note that all the line numbers are a little off but the size_t check is a full 300 lines different (presumably where the largefile support check should be). PS. from the config.log I note you invoked the configure script as just "configure". I recommend you use "./configure" explicitly, if building from within the source directory, to avoid relying on the PATH settings. I have no reason to believe this is the problem since the config.log appears to have been created from the GNU Make 4.4 configure, but I still recommend using a specific path. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63330> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/