[pylucene-dev] pylucene and 2gb limit of files

[tsuraan at tsuraan.net]

> Yes, this is a known problem.
>
> I've been able to use gcj 4.1.0 on gentoo linux with a patch. I 
> suspect it would work just as well on any Linux such as Debian or 
> Ubuntu.
>
> I applied the patch as described in this message:
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2006-03/msg00190.html
>
> It seems, though, that this patch was superceded by the patch in bug 
> 13212:
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13212
> but I haven't tried it yet.

These issues only apply to threaded use, right?  I'm running gentoo's 
gcc 4.1.1 as my system compiler, and I've had no trouble with PyLucene 
yet.  I haven't done anything fancy yet under Linux though, so is 
running the gentoo 4.1.1 compiler going to bite me once I start using 
threads?