Re: ["Florian Weimer" <address@hidden>] Bug#158969: autoconf: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE documentation misleading

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "Florian Weimer" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:50:21 +0200
> 
> Quote from the documentation:
> 
>  - Macro: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
>      Arrange for large-file support(1).  On some hosts, one must use
>      special compiler options to build programs that can access large
>      files.  Append any such options to the output variable `CC'.
>      Define `_FILE_OFFSET_BITS' and `_LARGE_FILES' if necessary.
> 
> This is wrong, the output variable in question is not called "CC", but
> "DEFS".

Perhaps you're confusing special compiler options (e.g. IRIX 6.2's C
compiler needs the "-n32" option) with ordinary compiler options like
"-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"?  The special options are appended to CC as
the Autoconf documentation says.  The ordinary ones are appended to
DEFS if AC_CONFIG_HEADERS is not called.

Another possibility is that you've somehow got hold of an older
version of the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro, and are overriding the macro
that comes with Autoconf 2.53.