On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Eric Blake wrote:
> Please propose a patch to the documentation, rather than just telling me
> that it is wrong, so that we have a concrete proposal for a wording
> improvement that we can discuss.
Oh okay, I’ll cater for lazy upstreams this time ;-)
See the attached git format-patch.
bye
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From e1319f97063b2e3b1db0d62fcbfd996d8cf2657c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mirabilos <tg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:27:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Fix incorrect AC_SYS_LARGEFILE documentation
The output goes to DEFS or config.h, by calling AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED.
Reported as Debian #158969 by Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
Signed-off-by: mirabilos <tg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
doc/autoconf.texi | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 07f238d3..55f96a32 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -8584,8 +8584,8 @@ if the system supports @samp{#!}, @samp{no} if not.
Arrange for 64-bit file offsets, known as
@uref{http://@/www.unix-systems@/.org/@/version2/@/whatsnew/@/lfs20mar.html,
large-file support}. On some hosts, one must use special compiler
-options to build programs that can access large files. Append any such
-options to the output variable @code{CC}. Define
+options to build programs that can access large files. Define,
+by calling @code{AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED},
@code{_FILE_OFFSET_BITS} and @code{_LARGE_FILES} if necessary.
Large-file support can be disabled by configuring with the
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