large file support in 2.6.1

2004-04-30 Thread Gordon Lack
The large file support in configure tests for working file-locking. This may fail if you are building over NFS and the NFS locking isn't working. rsync doesn't actually use file-locking, so this test causes it to remove large-file support unnecessarily. A workaround might be to

Re: large file support in 2.6.1

2004-04-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:45:47AM +0100, Gordon Lack wrote: rsync doesn't actually use file-locking, so this test causes it to remove large-file support unnecessarily. Rsync uses range-locking in its daemon code to implement the max connections option. A workaround might be to build on a