Large file system support in 2.1.2 (was Re: [Python-Dev] release for 2.1.2, plus 2.2.1...)

[Aahz Maruch]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >>>>> "MvL" == Martin v Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:
> 
>     MvL> "is used to create the compilation command" may be tricky to
>     MvL> implement.  Anyway, what is wrong with my earlier suggestion
> 
>     | export CFLAGS OPT
>     | CFLAGS='-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' 
>     | OPT="-g -O2 $CFLAGS" 
>     | ./configure
> 
> Two problems:
> 
> 1) This requires you to export two variables into the outer shell's
>    environment.  As a general rule, I think this is a bad idea for
>    tricking configure.  What else might you be affecting?  Others
>    might not care as much.

OTOH, if MvL's code is in a shell script, this objection doesn't apply.
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