On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> You might do ok calling

Lovely Jamie, thanks a lot! This little patch was what I ended up using (and
it seems to work at least on my system):

--- configure.ac 21 Aug 2008 05:19:40 -0000 1.327
+++ configure.ac 22 Aug 2008 07:55:36 -0000
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@
  dnl Our configure and build reentrant settings
  CURL_CONFIGURE_REENTRANT

+
+dnl check for off_t size once before enabling large files
+AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([off_t_before_largefile], [], [AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT
+ typedef off_t off_t_before_largefile;])
+
  dnl check for how to do large files
  AC_SYS_LARGEFILE

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se