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sr #110983: AC_SYS_LARGEFILE doesn't honor AC_LANG setting

Submitter:  Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Submitted:  Tue 19 Dec 2023 06:36:10 PM UTC
   
 
Priority:  * 3 - Release N+1 Severity:  4 - Important
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Operating System:  None
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Thu 23 May 2024 08:20:03 PM UTC, comment #7: 

This patch also works for me, thanks.

Jakub Bogusz

 Anonymous
Wed 24 Apr 2024 09:52:10 PM UTC, comment #6: 

I installed a patch; please give it a try. In the meantime I am boldly closing this bug report.

 Paul Eggert <eggert>
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Sat 13 Apr 2024 06:12:04 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Hi,

The attached patch seems to fix AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and co. with C++ for me (and test suite passes on i686).

Jakub Bogusz <qboosh at pld-linux.org>

(file #55940)

 Anonymous
Tue 19 Dec 2023 06:47:37 PM UTC, comment #4: 

@Paul Eggert: Not today, hopefully tomorrow.

 Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Group administrator
Tue 19 Dec 2023 06:46:25 PM UTC, comment #3: 

As a workaround, make sure to invoke AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and/or AC_SYS_YEAR2038 early in configure.ac (this is a good idea anyway, as they can affect the results of later checks), in C mode, even if nothing else uses the C compiler.  For example:


AC_INIT([my-C++-program], [1.0], ...)
AC_PROG_CC
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_LANG([C++])
# rest of the configure script
AC_OUTPUT


 Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Group administrator
Tue 19 Dec 2023 06:40:15 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Do you have an idea for a patch? We could put the patch into Gnulib's copy of AC_SYS_LARGEFILE now, and it'll see more real-worldish testing that way.

 Paul Eggert <eggert>
Group administrator
Tue 19 Dec 2023 06:36:38 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I don't want to mess with AC_SYS_LARGEFILE this close to a release, but we should prioritize fixing this very soon afterward.

 Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Group administrator
Tue 19 Dec 2023 06:36:10 PM UTC, original submission:  

_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_PROBE unconditionally modifies $CC, regardless of the current AC_LANG setting. Therefore, a configure script like this


AC_INIT
AC_LANG([C++])
AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
AC_OUTPUT


will not enable large file support, on a system where it's off by default but can be enabled.  Because it put -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 into $CC, where AC_COMPILE_IFELSE won't pick it up because we're using $CXX instead.

Since AC_SYS_YEAR2038 depends on AC_SYS_LARGEFILE, this affects that macro as well.

 Zack Weinberg <zackw>
Group administrator

 

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file #55940:  autoconf-largefile.patch added by None (1KiB - text/x-patch - Append flags to language-agnostic variable used by AC_COMPILE_IFELSE)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2024-04-24 eggert StatusConfirmed Done
    2024-04-13 None Attached File- Added autoconf-largefile.patch, #55940
    2023-12-19 zackw Priority5 - Unprioritized 3 - Release N+1
        Severity3 - Normal 4 - Important
        Operating SystemSolaris None

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