LFS | Large File Support using 2.4.9 and glibc 2.1.3 under RH6.2

["Abe Scwartz" <sloween hotmail com>]

I'm running glibc 2.1.3 w/ kernel 2.4.9 and would like to enabled Large File 
Support. My glibc 2.1.3 was recompiled
from the 6.2 source RPM after the 2.4.9 kernel upgrade. From the this 
[http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html] page reads
(and a few other posts I've read) that should be it. None of the articles 
I've read mention using any special compile/include/make flags when 
recompiling glibc. I've also upgraded to bash2.

o Should any special patches or flags be passed to glibc 2.1.3 when
recompiling after upgrading to kernel 2.4.9?

o Is there a simple way to test that LFS is indeed present in my new glibc 
2.1.3 w/ kernel 2.4.9 combination? `dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file
count=4400000` consistently fails with "File size limit exceeded(core
dumped)", but I'm not certain this isn't due to a limitation of dd. I've
tried the ulimit-pam.d/sshd fix, but that doesn't appear to have any affect.

o I recompiled tar-1.13 from the gnu.org tgz hoping that this might shed 
some light on what might be present LFS-wise.

[from `./configure`]

checking for CFLAGS value to request large file support... 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
checking for LDFLAGS value to request large file support...
checking for LIBS value to request large file support...
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS... 64
checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE... no
checking for _LARGE_FILES... no

Should _LARGEFILE_SOURCE or _LARGE_FILES be automatically detected? I tried 
#define'ing _LARGEFILE_SOURCE and _LARGE_FILES manually in tar's config.h, 
but this didn't allow tar to create a file larger than 2GB.

Out of desperation, I also tried rebuilding glibc-2.1.3 using the SRPMS from 
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/lfs/SRPMS, but this didn't solve the problem using 
either the tar or dd tests.

The only RPMs I've worked with so far have been glibc-2.1.3, 
glibc-devel-2.1.3 and glibc-profile-2.1.3. I didn't notice any specific 
mention of modifying libstdc++, so I left it as is.

I've also tried the tar and dd tests on both an ext2 and reiserfs 3.6 
partitions, with no luck.

I'm missing a small piece of the puzzle. Answers or suggestions from those 
who've succeeded in getting LFS working on a RH6.2 box with 2.4.x and glibc 
2.1.3 would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure I'm missing something really 
simple.

Thanks again!

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