From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 08:44:49 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 E163216A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:44:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn.criticalmagic.com (saturn.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D6843D55 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 08:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richardcoleman@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (titan.criticalmagic.com [68.213.16.23]) by saturn.criticalmagic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847503BD10 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:44:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40096688.7040304@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:44:56 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Organization: Critical Magic, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: <200312212239.38557.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20040106095942.O66232@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20040106182824.GA42422@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040107174346.GA50142@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040111093043.GA11120@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Reply-To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:44:50 -0000 Any idea on when we might make the jump to 64 bit time_t? We probably want to do it soon, and give ourselves a few months before the release. That way, there will be plenty of time to fix any troubles with ports. a HEADS UP on freebsd-current might be a good idea soon. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Well, that took longer than I expected. I had typo-ed 'make' > at one point, and didn't notice for awhile... > > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/installworld_nk > > Is the magic script. Probably a little more elaborate than it > needs to be, but I had plenty of extra time while waiting for > 'make buildworld' to finish... This is the version I just > used for a successful upgrade, except that I just added the > if-clause to also copy 'xinstall' as the 'install' command. > Given how much 'install' is called during 'installworld', I > wonder why it isn't included in the files that are copied > by the standard 'make installworld' target. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/UPDATING.64BTT > > This is a possible writeup which could be committed at the > same time as the script. Right now it's partially written > for people willing to help *test* the above change, and > partially written as if the 64-bit change has already been > committed, and this is telling everyone how to update to it. > So, it isn't perfect, but it does contain my complete and > explicit list of steps that I believe people should follow. > > The one thing I haven't tested yet is a rebuild of modula-3 and > cvsup on a 64-bit system, but I have that going right now. >