On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > Well, using off_t and AC_SYS_LARGEFILE seems to be the recommended > > practice. > > Recommended for POSIX systems, perhaps, but not really portable to > older machines. And it doesn't solve the portable printing problem > either, so in effect it's about as portable as unconditionally using > `long long', which is mandated by C99.
I doubt any system that does not support off_t does support LFS. And even if it does, it's probably not worth the hassle. To handle ordinary old systems, you just call: AC_CHECK_TYPE(off_t, long) before calling AC_SYS_LARGEFILE. Any real examples of systems that fail this sequence? Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available +
