Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:44:33AM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>  
> > If tcpdump developers are willing to upgrade their autoconf
> > packages to 2.5x (2.53) version then I'll prepare patch fixing
> > configure.in + adding LFS test.
> 
> I don't really see why this test is needed. We can just build it with
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. If large files are supported that will bring
> us support for files with 2^64 bytes. If not supported this will not 
> change anything afaik. Or is there a C library that will complain 
> about that setting being unsupported?
Look at AC_SYS_LARGEFILE m4 source. There are special cases
with non Linux systems and more macros than just _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.

Also think about broken autoconf 2.13 when dealing with gcc 3.2:
,,gcc 3.2's cpp breaks configure scripts''
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/

>       Torsten

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