Re: >2Gb files
Don't know if this helps too much either, but I am running unstable(sid) and >2GB files
work just fine.
On approximately Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:21:03PM +0100, david.jackson@ogt.co.uk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:13:11AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> > Maybe you've received better suggestion, but any way I'll offer
> > my $0.02.
> Appreciated!
> > When you recompiled libc, where the compiler looks for the
> > kernel's header?
> Well the debian glibc packaging is quite cunning in that it looks for a
> directory like /usr/src/kernel-header, (installed by a kernel-header package
> which can be created at the same time as your kernel-image using make-kpkg)
> and uses that, (or stops if there is more than one like that), or if there
> is a LINUX_SOURCE variable set uses that. This seems to be used with gcc
> after an -isystem flag (for prepending to the system include path I think).
> So I was pretty sure it was looking in the right place.
> > I mean: it might be the case that gcc is using
> > /usr/include/linux (2.2.18) for the kernel's header instead of your
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux (2.4.3)
> To make sure this wasn't the case I did a
> #dpkg --force-depends -r libc6-dev
> so that there was no /usr/include/linux or /usr/include/asm .
> I then rebuilt and reinstalled libc6 and libc6-dev debs (no problems).
> > So I think that for enable >2GB files you should copy all
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux to /usr/include/linux and then try to
> > recompile glibc.
> Just incase the libc6-dev package I'd created had done something evil to
> the header files I linked include/linux and asm directly to the
> corresponding kernel header directories and rebuilt and installed fileutils
> (which has dd in it). But still no luck in creating >2GB files.
> > Just my $0.02
> cheers,
> david
>
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