On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:52:18 -0600
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> In the last episode (Jan 30), Alexander Leidinger said:
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:53:18 -0600
> > Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Autoconf already knows about most OSes and whether they need special
> > > flags. From my recollection, Linux and Solaris need _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
> > > and _LARGEFILE_SOURCE, AIX needs _LARGE_FILES, *BSD and Tru64 don't
> > > need anything. Just add this to configure.in, and you'll transparently
> > > support them all automatically.
> > >
> > > AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
> >
> > Nothing more? No changes to the sources needed?
>
> Usually not. What the macro does is find out what needs to be defined
> to make off_t 64 bits. Depending on the OS, that may involve #defines
> that rewrite your fopen() calls to fopen64(), adding an O_LARGEFILE to
> open() calls etc, but it should all be basically invisible to the
> program. The only thing to watch for is libraries. If libmp3lame
> exports or calls functions with off_t arguments, that library will only
> be useable by prgrams built with the same off_t size (since the
> arguments on the stack won't align otherwise). It looks like lame is
> safe here.
I'm going to commit this now, but this may not be enough as the source
uses ints and longs where other types would be more "appropriate"...
Bye,
Alexander.
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