Large file support in Linux

[Tim Peters]

[randy at dayton.akorn.net]
> I'm trying to build Python 2.1.1 on Linux (RedHat 7.1) that can handle
> large files.
> ...
> This results in these errors during build
>
> Objects/fileobject.c: In function '_portable_ftell':
> Objects/fileobject.c:267: incompatible types in return

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