[A.J.Mechelynck] > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is set on my gcc command-line without me having > done anything special to get it.
Strange; it doesn't do that on my system. Does it work if you invoke ./configure without any extra arguments? By the way, I noticed that your build also sets _LARGEFILE_SOURCE. I didn't think this macro was needed, since all it does it enable two extra functions, ftello() and fseeko(), which I assumed would not make any difference in the tags issue. Turns out that I was wrong -- defining _LARGEFILE_SOURCE somehow fixed the problem. -- Haakon