"MvL" == Martin v Loewis
writes:
MvL> I'd strongly advise against putting that into the MvL> documentation. There are numerous assignments to CC inside MvL> configure.in, which would override this setting. Setting OPT MvL> and CFLAGS is the right way to pass these configuration MvL> options. >> I'll leave it up to others to decide what to change, >> Documentation? MvL> Please, not the way Barry proposes. Here's another suggestion: add a make variable that isn't used or anything else, has a default empty value, and is used to create the compilation command. Let's say $LARGEFILE. Then the configure command would be % LARGEFILE='-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ./configure and that should work on all shells, and without having to permanently export a variable to the environment, which I think we should avoid recommending. -Barry