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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:05:35PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> The following bug was reported against the Debian GNU/Linux
> package for Autoconf version 2.53.  It is an upstream bug, so I
> am forwarding it to the Autoconf mailing list.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.
> 
> -------------------- Start of forwarded message --------------------
> Subject: Bug#158969: autoconf: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE documentation misleading
> From: "Florian Weimer" <address@hidden>
> To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 09:50:21 +0200
> Message-Id: <address@hidden>
> 
> 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".

still wrong.  It should be CPPFLAGS.

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