inn 2.3.2 from isc.org compile problem -> --with-largefiles

[bill davidsen]

In article <06c601c1ab98$6a468630$2280c13e at tehnicom.net>,
zpetar <zpetar at tehnicom.net> wrote:
| 
| Using default installed Red Hat 7.2, after untar of inn, etc ... i try
| 
| ./configure  -with-perl --with-python --with-tcl --prefix=/news --oldinclude
| dir=/news/oinclude --build=Tehnicom --enable-FEATURE --with-PACKAGE --x-incl
| udes=/news/xinclude --x-libraries=/news/xlib --enable-uucp-rnews --enable-se
| tgid-inews --with-largefiles

  Are you literally putting FEATURE in the config? One of us doesn't
understand how that works

| error ... :(( ...
| ---
| loading cache ./config.cache
	[snip]
| checking for largefile linkage... no
| configure: error: Large files not supported on this platform
| ---
| 
| if i remove --with-largefiles all i done well ;)
| but i need --with-largefiles :))) ...

  Applications can't use largefiles unless the o/s supports them. I'm
not sure what the stock Redhat kernel supports, but it looks as if the
largefile linkage (libs+includes) are somehow missing. Perhaps when you
did the install you didn't install largefile support.

  My builds work, I have been running 20011101-CURRENT in production for
a while. Yes, I should upgrade, but it's *working*... A quick peek at my
CNFS buffers:
+  newsdbm01:news$ l /cnfs/sp01
+  total 117194512
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     40960000 Feb  6 09:34 CNCL_01
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     40960000 Feb  6 09:35 JOBS_01
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     512000000 Feb  6 09:34 KEEP_01
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     512000000 Feb  6 09:30 KEEP_02
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     2048000000 Feb  6 09:35 NORM_01
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     2048000000 Feb  6 09:35 NORM_02
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     57344000000 Feb  6 09:35 SMUT_01
+  -rw-r--r--    1 news     57344000000 Feb  6 09:35 SMUT_02
+  drwxr-xr-x    2 root        16384 Nov 20 10:29 lost+found

and my cnfsstat:
	[snip]
 Buffer SMUT04B, size:  53.4 GBytes, position:  6.05 GBytes  1.11 cycles
  Newest: 2002-02-06  9:36:47,    0 days,  0:00:04 ago
  Oldest: 2002-01-29  6:03:11,    8 days,  3:33:40 ago
 Buffer SMUT05B, size:  53.4 GBytes, position:  6.08 GBytes  1.11 cycles
  Newest: 2002-02-06  9:36:47,    0 days,  0:00:04 ago
  Oldest: 2002-01-29  6:10:15,    8 days,  3:26:36 ago

looks right to me, system is:
   Linux newsdbm01 2.4.13-ac5pp #3 SMP
an old -ac kernel with preempt and several local features patched in,
none of which relates to largefiles. I am sure a stock 2.4.17 or so
kernel has largefiles as well, although I virtually never run such a
thing ;-)

  Check what you installed, I think you just don't have support for the
feature.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.