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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
