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+#serial 13
+
+# See if we need to emulate a missing ftruncate function using fcntl or chsize.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2003-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
+# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
+# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
+
+# FIXME: remove this macro, along with all uses of HAVE_FTRUNCATE in 2010,
+# if the check below provokes no more reports. So far, the only report
+# arose from a test build of this gnulib module, cross-compiling to mingw:
+# <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/9203>
+
+AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_FTRUNCATE],
+[
+ AC_REQUIRE([gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS])
+ AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
+ AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([ftruncate])
+ if test $ac_cv_func_ftruncate = no; then
+ HAVE_FTRUNCATE=0
+ AC_LIBOBJ([ftruncate])
+ gl_PREREQ_FTRUNCATE
+ case "$host_os" in
+ mingw*)
+ # Yes, we know mingw lacks ftruncate.
+ ;;
+ *)
+ # If someone lacks ftruncate, make configure fail, and request
+ # a bug report to inform us about it.
+ if test x"$SKIP_FTRUNCATE_CHECK" != xyes; then
+ AC_MSG_FAILURE([Your system lacks the ftruncate function.
+ Please report this, along with the output of "uname -a", to the
+ bug-coreutils@gnu.org mailing list. To continue past this point,
+ rerun configure with SKIP_FTRUNCATE_CHECK=yes.
+ E.g., ./configure SKIP_FTRUNCATE_CHECK=yes])
+ fi
+ esac
+ fi
+])
+
+# Prerequisites of lib/ftruncate.c.
+AC_DEFUN([gl_PREREQ_FTRUNCATE],
+[
+ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(chsize)
+])