[issue9585] Largefile detection in configure fails

2010-08-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: The expression "largefile support" is a bit misleading. What it simply does is that it uses "long long" instead of "long" in order to store and compute file offsets. But, since a long is wide enough on your system to hold a off_t (both are 64 bits), it wouldn

[issue9585] Largefile detection in configure fails

2010-08-13 Thread David Austin
New submission from David Austin : On a Linux Xeon server (x86_64) largefile support is (incorrectly) not included. configure determines: checking size of int... 4 checking size of long... 8 checking size of void *... 8 checking size of short... 2 checking size of float... 4 checking size of dou