Thanks, I installed the attached and have merged the first patch into
Gnulib; the second patch merges the code with Gnulib.
>From 8f582a83efca19d3bd4ae30197a4c3aa155ce84c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:17:45 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove definition of _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE
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It’s not needed in currently-supported macOS versions, and was
problematic anyway in MacOS X 10.5 which was the only version that
could use it. Problem reported by Peter Eisentraut in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-autoconf/2020-02/msg00004.html
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE):
Don’t define _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE.
---
lib/autoconf/specific.m4 | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/specific.m4 b/lib/autoconf/specific.m4
index 4dec075b..1c41832d 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/specific.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/specific.m4
@@ -168,9 +168,6 @@ if test "$enable_largefile" != no; then
[Define for large files, on AIX-style hosts.],
[_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES])
fi
-
- AC_DEFINE([_DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE], [1],
- [Enable large inode numbers on Mac OS X 10.5.])
fi
])# AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
--
2.24.1
>From aa0f42b332852f3e39fa0aa08f2530ec4386c36c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 17:23:10 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Mention 32-bit GNU/Linux 64-bit inodes
* lib/autoconf/specific.m4 (AC_SYS_LARGEFILE):
In a comment, mention 64-bit inode problem on 32-bit GNU/Linux.
This is taken from Gnulib.
---
lib/autoconf/specific.m4 | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/specific.m4 b/lib/autoconf/specific.m4
index 1c41832d..2809c009 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/specific.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/specific.m4
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ rm -rf conftest*[]dnl
# one must use special compiler options to get large-file access to work.
# For more details about this brain damage please see:
# http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html
+# Additionally, on Linux file systems with 64-bit inodes a file that happens
+# to have a 64-bit inode number cannot be accessed by 32-bit applications on
+# Linux x86/x86_64. This can occur with file systems such as XFS and NFS.
AC_DEFUN([AC_SYS_LARGEFILE],
[AC_ARG_ENABLE(largefile,
[ --disable-largefile omit support for large files])
--
2.24.1
