diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e3e8faf5..7cc2615c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.57)
 
 
 dnl ############# Initialisation
-
+d
 AC_INIT([mpg123], [1.12.x-dev], [mpg123-devel@lists.sourceforge.net])
 dnl Increment API_VERSION when the API gets changes (new functions).
 API_VERSION=25
@@ -868,25 +868,12 @@ dnl Note: I started writing this with with multiline replacements.
 dnl Does not work. Automake insists on putting these into Makefiles where they break things.
 if test "x$ac_cv_sys_file_offset_bits" = x || echo "$ac_cv_sys_file_offset_bits" | grep  '@<:@^0-9@:>@' > /dev/null; then
 	dnl if it has non-numeric chars or is empty... ignore...
-	LARGEFILE_BITS=
-	LARGEFILE_SUFFIX=
 	LFS_LOBJ=
 else
-	LARGEFILE_BITS="$ac_cv_sys_file_offset_bits"
-	LARGEFILE_SUFFIX="_$ac_cv_sys_file_offset_bits"
 	# Add dual-mode wrapper code.
 	LFS_LOBJ=lfs_wrap.lo
 fi
 
-AC_SUBST(LFS_LOBJ)
-
-dnl Insert the function name redefinitions and export symbols as needed.
-dnl ...based on these two variables and manual work in src/libmpg123/mpg123.h.in .
-
-AC_SUBST(LARGEFILE_BITS)
-AC_SUBST(LARGEFILE_SUFFIX)
-AC_SUBST(LARGEFILE_SWITCH)
-
 # Using the lower level macros instead of AC_TYPE_* for compatibility with not freshest autoconf.
 AC_CHECK_TYPE(size_t, unsigned long)
 AC_CHECK_TYPE(ssize_t, long)
@@ -901,6 +888,32 @@ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(off_t,4)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(int32_t)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(long,4)
 
+# The alias functions want to know the native off_t bits.
+# "Native" also means large file offsets, if enabled, it's what is native to the mpg123 library.
+if test "x$ac_cv_sizeof_long" = "x"; then 
+  AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot determine sizeof(long)?])
+else
+  LFS_ALIAS_BITS=`expr "$ac_cv_sizeof_long" "*" "8"`
+  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([LFS_ALIAS_BITS], $LFS_ALIAS_BITS,
+    [Define this to the size of long type in bits, used for LFS small/native alias functions.])
+fi
+
+lfs_alias=enabled
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(lfs-alias,
+              [  --disable-lfs-alias disable alias wrappers for largefile bitness (mpg123_seek_32 in addition to mpg123_seek, mpg123_seek_64 as alias onx86-64) ],
+              [
+                if test "x$enableval" = xno; then
+                  lfs_alias="disabled"
+                fi
+              ], [])
+
+if test "x$lfs_alias" = "xenabled"; then
+  LFS_LOBJ="$LFS_LOBJ lfs_alias.lo"
+fi
+
+AC_SUBST(LFS_LOBJ)
+
+
 dnl ############## Function Checks
 
 AC_FUNC_MMAP
@@ -2014,6 +2027,8 @@ else
   echo "  File offsets ............ $LARGEFILE_BITS"
   echo "    The lib will (try to) support default offset size, too."
 fi
+echo "  LFS alias symbols ....... $lfs_alias ($LFS_ALIAS_BITS)"
+
 echo "  Alignment checks ........ $aligncheck"
 if test x"$aligncheck" = xenabled; then
 	if test x"$ccalign" != xyes; then
diff --git a/src/libmpg123/lfs_alias.c b/src/libmpg123/lfs_alias.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b7ff950b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libmpg123/lfs_alias.c
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/*
+	lfs_alias: Aliases to the small/native API functions with the size of long int as suffix.
+
+	copyright 2010 by the mpg123 project - free software under the terms of the LGPL 2.1
+	see COPYING and AUTHORS files in distribution or http://mpg123.org
+	initially written by Thomas Orgis
+
+	Use case: Client code on Linux/x86-64 that defines _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to 64, which is the only choice on that platform anyway. It should be no-op, but prompts the platform-agnostic header of mpg123 to define API calls with the corresponding suffix.
+	This file provides the names for this case. It's cruft, but glibc does it, too -- so people rely on it.
+	Oh, and it also caters for the lunatics that define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=32 on 32 bit platforms.
+*/
+
+#include "config.h"
+
+#ifndef LFS_ALIAS_BITS
+#error "I need the count of alias bits here."
+#endif
+
+/* Use the plain function names. */
+#define MPG123_NO_LARGENAME MPG123_MACROCAT(_, LFS_ALIAS_BITS)
+#include "mpg123.h"
+
+/* Now get the rest of the infrastructure on speed, namely attribute_align_arg, to stay safe. */
+#include "mpg123lib_intern.h"
+
+#define MACROCAT_REALLY(a, b) a ## b
+#define MACROCAT(a, b) MACROCAT_REALLY(a, b)
+#define ALIAS_SUFFIX MACROCAT(_, LFS_ALIAS_BITS)
+#define ALIAS_NAME(func) MACROCAT(func, ALIAS_SUFFIX)
+
+/*
+	Extract the list of functions we need wrappers for, pregenerating the wrappers for simple cases:
+perl -ne '
+if(/^\s*EXPORT\s+(\S+)\s+(mpg123_\S+)\((.*)\);\s*$/)
+{
+	my $type = $1;
+	my $name = $2;
+	my $args = $3;
+	next unless ($type =~ /off_t/ or $args =~ /off_t/);
+	$type =~ s/off_t/long/g;
+	my @nargs = ();
+	$args =~ s/off_t/long/g;
+	foreach my $a (split(/,/, $args))
+	{
+		$a =~ s/^.*\s\**([a-z_]+)$/$1/;
+		push(@nargs, $a);
+	}
+	my $nargs = join(", ", @nargs);
+	$nargs = "Human: figure me out." if($nargs =~ /\(/);
+	print <<EOT
+
+$type attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME($name)($args)
+{
+	return $name($nargs);
+}
+EOT
+}' < mpg123.h.in
+*/
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_decode_frame)(mpg123_handle *mh, long *num, unsigned char **audio, size_t *bytes)
+{
+	return mpg123_decode_frame(mh, num, audio, bytes);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_framebyframe_decode)(mpg123_handle *mh, long *num, unsigned char **audio, size_t *bytes)
+{
+	return mpg123_framebyframe_decode(mh, num, audio, bytes);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_tell)(mpg123_handle *mh)
+{
+	return mpg123_tell(mh);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_tellframe)(mpg123_handle *mh)
+{
+	return mpg123_tellframe(mh);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_tell_stream)(mpg123_handle *mh)
+{
+	return mpg123_tell_stream(mh);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_seek)(mpg123_handle *mh, long sampleoff, int whence)
+{
+	return mpg123_seek(mh, sampleoff, whence);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_feedseek)(mpg123_handle *mh, long sampleoff, int whence, long *input_offset)
+{
+	return mpg123_feedseek(mh, sampleoff, whence, input_offset);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_seek_frame)(mpg123_handle *mh, long frameoff, int whence)
+{
+	return mpg123_seek_frame(mh, frameoff, whence);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_timeframe)(mpg123_handle *mh, double sec)
+{
+	return mpg123_timeframe(mh, sec);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_index)(mpg123_handle *mh, long **offsets, long *step, size_t *fill)
+{
+	return mpg123_index(mh, offsets, step, fill);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_set_index)(mpg123_handle *mh, long *offsets, long step, size_t fill)
+{
+	return mpg123_set_index(mh, offsets, step, fill);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_position)( mpg123_handle *mh, long frame_offset, long buffered_bytes, long *current_frame, long *frames_left, double *current_seconds, double *seconds_left)
+{
+	return mpg123_position(mh, frame_offset, buffered_bytes, current_frame, frames_left, current_seconds, seconds_left);
+}
+
+long attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_length)(mpg123_handle *mh)
+{
+	return mpg123_length(mh);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_set_filesize)(mpg123_handle *mh, long size)
+{
+	return mpg123_set_filesize(mh, size);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_replace_reader)(mpg123_handle *mh, ssize_t (*r_read) (int, void *, size_t), long (*r_lseek)(int, long, int))
+{
+	return mpg123_replace_reader(mh, r_read, r_lseek);
+}
+
+int attribute_align_arg ALIAS_NAME(mpg123_replace_reader_handle)(mpg123_handle *mh, ssize_t (*r_read) (void *, void *, size_t), long (*r_lseek)(void *, long, int), void (*cleanup)(void*))
+{
+	return mpg123_replace_reader_handle(mh, r_read, r_lseek, cleanup);
+}