On 9/11/23 13:23, Russ Allbery wrote:
I suspect that the aswer to the original question is "don't worry about it, just use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, because no system you will build on will need the CC modification anyway."
Yes, that's the advice I'd give.One other caveat is that if you want to port to native Microsoft Windows (with either Mingw or not), Autoconf doesn't really support that. Gnulib has a largefile module that attempts to address that platform.