I recently requested Support from the Mandrake Community, in the absence
of such, I took my problem to the developers of Perl. Here's an unpopular
response about my inquiry.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:36:33PM -0500, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:
> [/usr/src] grep -i large rebuild.log
> + sh Configure -des -Darchname=i386-linux -Dd_dosuid -Ud_csh
> -Duseshrplib '-Doptimize=-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro
> -march=i586 -ffast-math -fno-strength-reduce' -Dprefix=/usr -Di_ndbm
> -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Uuselargefiles
> -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/lib/perl5/man/man3
> Try to understand large files, if available? [n]
> Checking whether your C compiler can cast large floats to int32.
>
> While it is apparent that the -Uuselargefiles directive is used, I am
> not certain that this is being applied to the configuration, as the next
> question is asking 'Try to understand large files, if available?' and
> the default answer is [n].
-Uuselargefiles means *don't* use large files. -D == define. -U == undefine.
So you likely want to change that to -Duselargefiles and maybe question why Mandrake is shutting it off.
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I guess inquiring minds want to know, WHY is Mandrake NOT Supporting Large Files in the stock distribution of PERL?
SINCE I NEED LARGE FILE SUPPORT, CAN I GET IT WITH MY MANDRAKE?
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Albert E. Whale - CISSP
http://www.abs-comptech.com
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