From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 13:39:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AF716A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619C643D55 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 648D8322; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:39:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:39:50 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040110213950.GR451@seekingfire.com> References: <200312212239.38557.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040106095942.O66232@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20040106182824.GA42422@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040107174346.GA50142@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: Gearing up for 64-bit time_t on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:39:53 -0000 On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:20:57AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > After reading over what Harti had done, and staring at the > standard makefiles awhile, I ended up writing one helper- > script. With this helper-script, the upgrade to 64-bits > went fairly smooth. > I hope to do a repeat test of all of this work sometime over > the weekend. I also might try to make some more improvements. Thanks for doing this work and making your notes public. As a sparc64 user (running a public web site and hosting mailing lists) I appreciate any effort to make the 64-bit time transition smoother, and success stories with detailed notes definitely help :-) -T -- Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security. - Bene Gesserit Coda