Re: ac-archive: ac_sys_largefile and libraries...

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:00:57 +0100
> From: Guido Draheim <address@hidden>
> 
> The end of the discussion can only be to change the compilation
> behaviour globally - making 64bit off_t the default if that is
> supported by the system, and dropping the settable off_t altogether.

I suppose we could change Autoconf so that largefile-mode is the
default, and you need to invoke a new macro AC_SYS_SMALLFILE if you
want 32-bit off_t applications on 64-bit off_t hosts.  That wouldn't
solve the problem in general, but it would solve it for programs that
use Autoconf.