From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:29:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document configuration flags to compile for large file support on
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b1~64
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f89ad5ed6bdae56f9e7339d44a596c298ed6f4fd;p=python

Document configuration flags to compile for large file support on
certain Linux systems.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
index 540767badf..dada973011 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
@@ -56,9 +56,17 @@ of Irix, but with Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 you need to do something like:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 CFLAGS="`getconf LFS_CFLAGS`" OPT="-g -O2 $CFLAGS" \
-        configure
+        ./configure
 \end{verbatim} % $ <-- bow to font-lock
 
+On large-file-capable Linux systems, this might work:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+CC="-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+export CC
+./configure
+\end{verbatim}
+
 
 \subsection{Module Contents \label{posix-contents}}