Hello, sorry to bether you as the maintainer of the debian libc6 package, but I would like to ask a question, or rather two strictly related ones that probably have a single answer, about support for large files (>2Gbytes) in linux on x86 platforms.
The question: is the current woody libc6 LFS capable, with a LFS patched 2.2.x kernel or with a 2.4.0test kernel that has LFS support included? I have been reading the web page http://www.scyld.com/software/lfs.html page, that talks about enabling LFS, and it involves patching the glibc (patch in an archive on the web page, GPLed). The patches do not apply cleanly out of the box to the sources out of which the current woody libc6 package is built. Namely they try to create a new sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/mmap64.S (which exists already and is different from the one that the patch would create) and to apply apparently previously applied (?) patches to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/mmap.S and misc/sys/mman.h. Any suggestion on how to get this to work? I definitely need to work with large files on x86 Linux, and I would hate to have to move to RedHat Enterprise edition (I tried RedHat and do prefer Debian, even unstable, over it) Thanks a lot Giacomo Mulas ________________________________________________________________________ Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________________________________________________ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel.: +39 070 71180 216 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 ________________________________________________________________________ "When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" (Freddy Mercury) ________________________________________________________________________
