[Zope] Enquires

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
30 Jul 2002 10:05:40 -0400


FWIW, here is a sample "configure" command that can be used to configure
the Python source build for large file support under Linux:

CC='gcc -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'\
         /home/zope/src/Python-2.1.3/configure \
         --prefix=/home/zope/opt/Python-2.1.3 --with-thread


On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 08:10, Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:59:27PM +0200, douwe@oberon.nl wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > the 2Gb Filesize limit is a problem only on some Unix systems.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is not correct. There is a 2GB problem in Zope running on Win2K.
> > Win2K supports files larger than 2GB alright, but Zope or rather Python
> > in the standard distribution does not.
> 
> ok true.
> What I meant to say was that there is no "W2K 2 GB filesize problem". If 
> zope (or Python) has a problem with large files, it is not a windows 
> problem either 
> 
> bottomline: migrating from Windows to Linux, without changing anything 
> else will not solve the problem.
> 
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