Linux + large-files

[Fabien Tassin]

According to Russ Allbery:
> 
> bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> 
> >   Once upon a time there was code to call some system program and get
> > back the options needed to do large files. Can't we go back to that and
> > test if large files are supported?
> 
> Turned out that said program only supported that option on Solaris.  It's
> still being used on Solaris, but the other platforms don't do things that
> way.
> 
> Large file support is tried for Linux in CURRENT, but I'm still hoping for
> autoconf 2.50 which has a large-file macro built in that should do all of
> the right things.

then, why not use 2.49c ? IIRC, 2.50 was supposed to be released in september.
2.50 could happen RSN or never. 2.49c looks ok to me. It's not an alpha version,
not even a beta but the third release condidat.  Looks ok for CURRENT, no ?

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