[Python-Dev] large file support

[Martin v. Loewis]

Andreas Jung <andreas@andreas-jung.com> writes:

> I remember that we had several times trouble with compiling
> Python 2.1 under Redhat with LF support. Also the way described in the docs
> did not work in all cases and we had to tweak the sources at bit
> (I think it was posixmodule.c).

For the current 2.1 release, the docs are believed to be correct (the
instructions used to be incorrect, as was the code). For 2.2, it is
believed that no extra configuration is necessary on "most" systems
(Windows, Linux, Solaris).

Regards,
Martin