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 know I'm coming into this discussion late, but why even involve CFLAGS?

Because without it, autoconf won't detect that large file support is
available, and fail to define HAVE_LARGEFILE. This is because
configure uses CFLAGS on its own for the test scripts, but won't use
OPT. I don't think anything in the configure machinery should change
for 2.1.2, since 2.2 does it all in a different and better way.

Regards,
Martin