Re: Problematic redefinition of 'stat' and 'fstat'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:13:54 -0800
> 
> On 12/24/19 7:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I will have to hack Gnulib
> > by hand in each project I'll need to compile.
> 
> './configure --disable-largefile' should suffice, so you shouldn't need to
> change the source. I just tried that on Ubuntu 18.04.3 when configuring a 
> 32-bit
> Emacs, and it built an Emacs with 32-bit off_t that worked fine (except it
> failed on large files of course).

Thanks, I will try that next time.

> Or you can do what Bruno suggested, and use gnulib-tool with
> '--avoid=largefile'. This will omit m4/largefile.m4 so that even plain
> './configure' should work the way you want.

I'm building a tarball, where Gnulib has been already imported.