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4 In addition, there have been bugs fixed.
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106 System-specific Notes
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109 It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
110 that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work correctly.
111 It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work.
113 One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code
114 to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and
115 debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works
116 properly on your system. (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you
117 need not build Make itself to run this test.)
119 Another potential source of porting problems is the support for large
120 files (LFS) in configure for those operating systems that provide it.
121 Please report any bugs that you find in this area. If you run into
122 difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to disable LFS by
123 adding the `--disable-largefile' option to the `configure' script.