[Zope] LFS (large file support)

[Andreas Jung]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:13:35AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Linux, at least, compiling and installing Python 2.X with large
> file support can be accomplished via:
> 
> export CC="gcc -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
> ./configure --prefix=/some/directory --with-thread; make; make install
> 
> The Linux kernel and C libraries need to support large files for this
> to work.  I have had success on both Debian Woody and Red Hat 7.2+
> with this recipe.

Amen - that's how it is described in the Python Library docs.

-aj