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-#serial 12
-
-dnl By default, many hosts won't let programs access large files;
-dnl one must use special compiler options to get large-file access to work.
-dnl For more details about this brain damage please see:
-dnl http://www.sas.com/standards/large.file/x_open.20Mar96.html
-
-dnl Written by Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>.
-
-dnl Internal subroutine of AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
-dnl AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
-AC_DEFUN(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES,
-  [[#include <sys/types.h>
-    int a[(off_t) 9223372036854775807 == 9223372036854775807 ? 1 : -1];
-  ]])
-
-dnl Internal subroutine of AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.
-dnl AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE(C-MACRO, VALUE, CACHE-VAR, COMMENT, INCLUDES, FUNCTION-BODY)
-AC_DEFUN(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE,
-  [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for $1 value needed for large files], $3,
-     [$3=no
-      AC_TRY_COMPILE(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
-$5
-        ,
-	[$6], 
-	,
-	[AC_TRY_COMPILE([#define $1 $2]
-AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
-$5
-	   ,
-	   [$6],
-	   [$3=$2])])])
-   if test "[$]$3" != no; then
-     AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([$1], [$]$3, [$4])
-   fi])
-
-AC_DEFUN(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE,
-  [AC_ARG_ENABLE(largefile,
-     [  --disable-largefile     omit support for large files])
-   if test "$enable_largefile" != no; then
-
-     AC_CACHE_CHECK([for special C compiler options needed for large files],
-       ac_cv_sys_largefile_CC,
-       [ac_cv_sys_largefile_CC=no
-        if test "$GCC" != yes; then
-	  # IRIX 6.2 and later do not support large files by default,
-	  # so use the C compiler's -n32 option if that helps.
-	  AC_TRY_COMPILE(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES, , ,
-	    [ac_save_CC="$CC"
-	     CC="$CC -n32"
-	     AC_TRY_COMPILE(AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES, ,
-	       ac_cv_sys_largefile_CC=' -n32')
-	     CC="$ac_save_CC"])
-        fi])
-     if test "$ac_cv_sys_largefile_CC" != no; then
-       CC="$CC$ac_cv_sys_largefile_CC"
-     fi
-
-     AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE(_FILE_OFFSET_BITS, 64,
-       ac_cv_sys_file_offset_bits,
-       [Number of bits in a file offset, on hosts where this is settable.])
-     AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE(_LARGEFILE_SOURCE, 1,
-       ac_cv_sys_largefile_source,
-       [Define to make ftello visible on some hosts (e.g. HP-UX 10.20).],
-       [#include <stdio.h>], [return !ftello;])
-     AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE(_LARGE_FILES, 1,
-       ac_cv_sys_large_files,
-       [Define for large files, on AIX-style hosts.])
-dnl	lftp does not need ftello, and _XOPEN_SOURCE=500 makes resolv.h fail.
-dnl     AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_MACRO_VALUE(_XOPEN_SOURCE, 500,
-dnl       ac_cv_sys_xopen_source,
-dnl       [Define to make ftello visible on some hosts (e.g. glibc 2.1.3).],
-dnl       [#include <stdio.h>], [return !ftello;])
-   fi
-  ])