<div dir="ltr"><div>Well, I am testing, atm, on AIX 5.3 TL7 - which is "old"/ Maybe they broke something that works okay on AIX 7.1 :p </div>I'll dig further. Thanks for the info.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Alan Coopersmith <<a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" target="_blank">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 02/15/15 12:34 PM, Michael Felt wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> So, it seems there is an inaccurate assumption regarding the affect/interaction of _LARGE_FILES and _LARGE_FILE_API Looking at <a href="http://config.h.in" target="_blank">config.h.in</a> <<a href="http://config.h.in" target="_blank">http://config.h.in</a>> - it looks as it _LARGE_FILES was added to assist with AIX, and now it is getting the way (fun :p) I cannot find where the code for configure is generated. </blockquote> It's autogenerated by the GNU autoconf macro for AC_SYS_LARGEFILE: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/System-Services.html" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/System-Services.html</a> If the #defines it sets are broken for new versions of AIX, then it should be fixed in GNU autoconf, since otherwise it will be broken in the thousands of packages that use autoconf. -- -Alan Coopersmith- <a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" target="_blank">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a> Oracle Solaris Engineering - <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc" target="_blank">http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc</a> </blockquote></div> </div>