[Fontconfig] issue with _LARGE_FILES and AIX with version 2.11.92, not with 2.4.2

[Michael Felt]

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

I'll dig further. Thanks for the info.

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 02/15/15 12:34 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
>
>> So, it seems there is an inaccurate assumption regarding the
>> affect/interaction
>> of _LARGE_FILES and _LARGE_FILE_API
>>
>> Looking at config.h.in <http://config.h.in> - 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.
>>
>
> It's autogenerated by the GNU autoconf macro for AC_SYS_LARGEFILE:
> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/
> autoconf-2.69/html_node/System-Services.html
>
> 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-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>
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