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  r88438 | georg.brandl | 2011-02-19 09:44:47 +0100 (Sa, 19 Feb 2011) | 1 line

  #10709: add back an updated AIX-NOTES (as README.AIX).
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  r88440 | georg.brandl | 2011-02-19 09:58:23 +0100 (Sa, 19 Feb 2011) | 1 line

  #11184: Fix large file support on AIX.
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diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index a24e54b..d1833be 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1395,6 +1395,12 @@
 if test "$use_lfs" = "yes"; then
 # Two defines needed to enable largefile support on various platforms
 # These may affect some typedefs
+case $ac_sys_system/$ac_sys_release in
+AIX*)
+    AC_DEFINE(_LARGE_FILES, 1, 
+    [This must be defined on AIX systems to enable large file support.])
+    ;;
+esac
 AC_DEFINE(_LARGEFILE_SOURCE, 1, 
 [This must be defined on some systems to enable large file support.])
 AC_DEFINE(_FILE_OFFSET_BITS, 64,