[ale] Kernel 2.4 Released

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Bob Kruger wrote:

> "Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> .
> >
> >         Bottom line is that you should never have to do anything "overt"
> > to enable large file system support.  It's either not there at all, or
> > it will autoconfigure itself.  The exceptions to that should be very
> > rare.
>
> I used "configure" to make the Makefiles prior to compiling.  Even
> though the new kernel is installed, and this is a recent version of
> Slakware, Samba did not pick up the availability of a 64 bit file
> system.
>
> I wonder if anyone else running Slack has been able to make that happen.

It's not going to work with Slackware.  They still ship glibc-2.1.3 w/o
large file support in the latest release.  Either recompile glibc yourself
or switch to a more current distribution and then it should Just Work.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom at gatech.edu
                                              chris.ricker at genetics.utah.edu

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