I reported what I found after some investigation and testing. If most of this is already known to you, then I applogize for posting them. Martin has already provided a good fix for TL: added --disable-largefile to the Build script. A slightly better fix is to disable LFS support by default, and change --disable-largefile to --enable-largefile Someone may want to fix the config stuff to get LFS working on all systems. It seems hard to me so I will not try that. I vote for disabling LFS by default, and document that enabling LFS might break things on some systems. Regards test case: I will submit I I have to TL, if Karl agrees. However, it's not anything close to systematic. Regards, Thanh On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:28:21PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:

On Fr, 12 Sep 2008, Thanh Han The wrote:

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Some more relevant info about the problem:

Most of that was known already, we would be in need of good test cases and a good fix.

Maybe you could check up with Martin to get a quick *and* working fix.

Thanks.

Norbert

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