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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > I must have missed that.  Was Martin suggesting a shell script, like
 > "configure-lfs"?

  As long as configure captures the values to the Makefile, it doesn't
matter whether the user types

CFLAGS=...
OPT=...
export OPT CFLAGS
./configure

or

CFLAGS=... OPT=... ./configure

is a matter of syntax, not functionality.  We should not rely on any
special environment variables being set after configure has been run.
I think we're wasting time arguing about syntax at this point, and not
making any progress.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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