[Python-Dev] release for 2.1.2, plus 2.2.1...

[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?

> I'd say LFS in Python 2.1.2 should be a high priority.

Yes.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)