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From: "Guido van Rossum"
Confirmed. The compilation errors can be fixed with the patch that Martin sent around earlier in this thread. So that probably ought to be added to Python 2.1.2. But the patch + the posix-large-file instructions still don't enable large file support for me on glibc 2.2.4. So something more is needed.
Hm, is it possible that glibc 2.2.4 is too old to support large files? s I would be surprised if glibc 2.2.4 does not support LFS. Some months ago I installed Python 2.1 on a "older" RH 7.1 system with LFS support. The glibc version of RH7.1 is most likely older than 2.2.4.
Andreas