Hi all Apologies if this is a FAQ, a quick Google only turned up "Linux binary build includes Python 2.1.3 with Large File Support enabled compiled against glibc-2.1.3" from http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2002-September/000884.html What I'd like to know is: what was done to compile that Python with LFS? And how do you check if it's in? After looking at http://www.python.org/doc/2.2p1/lib/posix-large-files.html I tried this:: jean@blommie Products $ getconf LFS_CFLAGS -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 which makes it look as if the environment is OK for compiling in LFS. But doing 'import types; dir(types)' doesn't show a 'LongLongType', only a 'LongType'. So it looks like this Python doesn't handle large files after all. Is there a recipe somewhere? -- Jean Jordaan http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za