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

[Andreas Jung]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org>
To: "Barry A. Warsaw" <barry@zope.com>
Cc: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@zope.com>; "Martin v. Loewis"
<martin@v.loewis.de>; <anthony@interlink.com.au>; <python-dev@python.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 14:04
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] release for 2.1.2, plus 2.2.1...


> > 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?
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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