>From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> It seems that this is a problem caused by the buggy glibc-2.1.3 as found
>>> on some redhat systems.
>>>
>>> I compiled it without problems on SuSE with glibc-2.1.3 but it seems
>>> that SuSE did a better job and fixed the bugs in the system include files.
>>
>> Ah, ha! I didn't realize that Redhat and SuSE were doing Alpha ports,
>>I haven't even been able to get RH-7.0 CD's for SPARC, and I thought RH
>>had stopped doing RISC at 6.0 or so.
>No, Alpha is still supported by Red Hat Linux officially. The
>Alpha release often lags behind the i386 release by a month or
>so. The sparc port is available via FTP only and is not
>supported or sold. Support for sparc as a sold product was
>dropped due to lack of interest by users. The sparc userbase is
>so small that dedicating the resources required to the sparc
>releases was not worth it. That doesn't mean that it isn't
>worked on however, quite contrary. It just isn't a supported
>"boxed" product currently.
So far, I have never _seen_ a Alpha Linux box although I have been
loogin on one ;-) There is at least one sparc/linux box in our
research institute.
>> What versions of Redhat and SuSE on Alpha have and don't have the
>>problem? I may be installing new systems in 2Q01.
>Alpha _is_ supported so if there are bugs in the Red Hat Linux
>Alpha release, please report them via bugzilla:
>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
The cdrecord large file problem is neither redhat nor Alpha specific.
It appears on all systems that use an unmodified glibc-2.1.3
It is caused by the fact that glibc-2.1.3 announdces itself as
large file compliant but i not because it hides fseeko/ftello
I started with Paul Eggert's large file autoconf approach
which was not a good idea for glibc-2.1.3
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