On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On > http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html > I read that for glibc 2.1.3 in order to support large files it needs to be > compiled against headers from a 2.4 kernel. As this is currently not the > case, glibc 2.1.3 should be rebuilt.
Woody is shortly going to be moving to a pre-release of glibc 2.2, so this will become a non-issue. IIRC, Ben's in testing mode on this transition now, so it shouldn't be long. If you really need a glibc 2.1.3 that supports >2GB files on a potato system, it may be better to attempt a recompilation on your own (it's very easy to build even glibc, given the wonderful packaging job that was done on it). Be warned, though, that potato was built using 2.2.x kernel headers, so things may break (probably won't, but just in case, I had to throw that in there). Besides, the 2.4.x kernels aren't out yet (nor are they even close to stable on any arch), so I'd recommend waiting until they're released and tested a bit more. BTW, Alpha can handle >2GB files right now :-) Nice to be a non-x86 user when these discussions come up :-) C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]