From c90a6c706772208b658e544b0b1732880b713d4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "joerg@mysql.com" <>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:34:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce "configure" support for a new
 '-with-big-tables' option that can replace the current way of passing
 '-DBIG_TABLES' to the compilers.

This is needed even in 4.0, as 'Do-compile-all' must use this new approach for
all "max" builds in 4.0, 4.1, and up.
---
 acinclude.m4 | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 configure.in |  1 +
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 6c567f00765..9c7557cdf11 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -868,6 +868,36 @@ AC_MSG_CHECKING(for OpenSSL)
 ])
 
 
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl Macro: MYSQL_CHECK_BIG_TABLES
+dnl Sets BIG_TABLES if --with-big-tables is used
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+AC_DEFUN([MYSQL_CHECK_BIG_TABLES], [
+  AC_ARG_WITH([big-tables],
+              [
+  --with-big-tables       Support tables with more than 4 G rows even on 32 bit platforms],
+              [bigtables="$withval"],
+              [bigtables=no])
+  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for big tables support])
+
+  case "$bigtables" in
+    yes )
+      AC_DEFINE([BIG_TABLES], [1], [Support big tables])
+      AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+      [bigtables=yes]
+      ;;
+    * )
+      AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+      [bigtables=no]
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+])
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl END OF MYSQL_CHECK_BIG_TABLES SECTION
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
 AC_DEFUN(MYSQL_CHECK_MYSQLFS, [
   AC_ARG_WITH([mysqlfs],
               [
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 36473de7ad1..dbde72b8d4e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -2482,6 +2482,7 @@ EOF
 AC_MSG_RESULT([default: $default_charset; compiled in: $CHARSETS])
 
 
+MYSQL_CHECK_BIG_TABLES
 MYSQL_CHECK_ISAM
 MYSQL_CHECK_BDB
 MYSQL_CHECK_INNODB

From 4951842842002324e76c60d4046ed976a1328ff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "joerg@mysql.com" <>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:55:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Post-review fix: Drop the duplicate assignment.

---
 acinclude.m4 | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 9c7557cdf11..f36940670a6 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -884,11 +884,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([MYSQL_CHECK_BIG_TABLES], [
     yes )
       AC_DEFINE([BIG_TABLES], [1], [Support big tables])
       AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
-      [bigtables=yes]
       ;;
     * )
       AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
-      [bigtables=no]
       ;;
   esac