So to conclude, I am running tex-binaries and kpathsea build with --enable-largefiles and it works for me. It solves the problem that stat in texk/kpathsea/readdable.c will not fail on a CIFS file system, thus I can compile latex files stored on a CIFS system.So we'll simply patch the Build script to enable the --enable-largefiles and everything is fine, correct?
Yes.
This should solve your cifs problem. If it solves the dvips problem too: nice. For me it didn't.
Sincerely yours
Pierre
--
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Pierre Schnizer<p.schnizer@gsi.de>
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
Planckstraße 1
D-64291 Darmstadt
www.gsi.de
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Darmstadt
Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Darmstadt, HRB 1528
Geschäftsführung: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Stöcker, Dr. Hartmut Eickhoff
Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph
Stellvertreter: Ministerialdirigent Dr. Rolf Bernhardt
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+