Large File Support

[Rod MacNeil]

Thanks for your response Art.

I tried   $ ./configure OPT="-O2 ${CFLAGS}"
but I got an error from make.

The following solution worked, or seems to. But I'm not a C programmer so I
need to find out if it is correct to do it this way:


1. Run ./configure

2. Edit Makefile and add the following options to the OPT=  line near the
top:      -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

3. Run make.



Can you tell me if this incorrect in some way?

Thanx

Rod MacNeil

"Art Haas" <arthur.haas at westgeo.com> wrote in message
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> "Rod MacNeil" <rmacneil at interactdirect.com> writes:
>
> > Hello NG,
> >
> > I need to build Python to include large file support on Redhat Linux
7.1.
> >
> > I tried the following instructions from section 8.1.1 in the Python docs
but
> > it doesn't work:
> >
> >     On large-file-capable Linux systems, this might work:
> >
> >
> > CC="-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> > export CC
> > ./configure
> >
> >
> > I think this fails because the variable CC is expected to have the
compiler
> > name (gcc).
> >
> > Does anyone have any alternative instructions?
> >
>
> Don't set `CC', set `CFLAGS' ...
>
> $ CFLAGS="-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> $ export CFLAGS
> $ ./configure
> ...
>
> You'll probably have to go in and edit the Makefile, to set these same
> flags for the `OPT' variable as well. Or, when you run `configure',
> you could ...
>
> $ ./configure OPT="-O2 ${CFLAGS}"
>
> ... and things should work. If you want to have debug info in the
> compiled program, add a `-g' to the OPT variable. Check the makefile
> when configure finishes to ensure that the largefile flags are in the
> OPT variable.
>
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