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Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here


On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote:
> XPPro, NTFS.  Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine,
> which covers a lot of intermediate territory.  Autoconf/Automake/Perl still
> work.  I don't know if the tools thus built use 64-bit file APIs, since I
> don't have any source files exceeding 4GB ;-).  And I've even been using the
> snapshots.

Please don't forget that 1.5.0 not only introduces 64 bit file offsets
but also 32 bit uids and gids.  Testing this is pretty easy by changing
/etc/passwd and /etc/group.  Just keep in mind that all tools not build
for 1.5.0 will not like uids/gids > 64K...

Corinna

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