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

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred L Drake, Jr <fdrake@acm.org> writes:

    Fred>   This seems tolerable.  We should probably look for getconf
    Fred> in the configure script, and make the default value the
    Fred> result of "getconf LFS_CFLAGS" if available.  This seems
    Fred> like it would do "the right thing" more often without user
    Fred> intervention and is safe when getconf is not available.  If
    Fred> LARGEFILE were set in the environment (by a command line
    Fred> such as you suggest), we'd just use that instead.

+1

BTW, does anybody have a manpage for getconf?

-Barry