Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Yang Tse wrote:
>
> >>For getting the size to do the checks I mentioned previously in the
> >>"Binary
> >>compatibility and 64-bit curl_off_t" thread[*], we need to figure out if
> >>LFS
> >>is explicity disabled on a system that otherwise could support it. I'm not
> >>sure how this can be done in any easy manner. The AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro
> >>doesn't seem to disclose this info.
> >
> >sizeof(off_t) before and after AC_SYS_LARGEFILE perhaps ?
>
> Ah that's a good idea, and then compare it with the size found after the
> macro. The only little I experience when trying this out is the fact that
> configure caches the result from the check so the second check simply
> re-uses the previous result without doing the check again and I haven't yet
> worked out how to invalidate that particular cached variable.

Just clear ac_cv_sizeof_off_t. The slightly troublesome bit is that
"unset" isn't portable...

-- Jamie
Received on 2008-08-21