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

[Martin v. Loewis]

> I think the following is a better suggestion:
> 
> % CC='gcc -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ./configure
> 
> CC is propagated to the Makefile so that just "make" is necessary, but
> OPT and CFLAGS is not.  (Although, I seem to vaguely remember that OPT
> /used/ to propagate -- I must be mis-remebering.)

What version of configure are you using? On my system, with configure
1.207.2.7, doing 

CFLAGS='-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' OPT="-g -O2 $CFLAGS"
./configure

will result in a line

OPT=		-g -O2 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

in the Makefile. This, in turn, will result in a compilation line

gcc -c -g -O2 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I. -I./Include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o Objects/fileobject.o Objects/fileobject.c

Something else is going on on your system. Did you remove config.cache
before running configure?

Regards,
Martin