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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:05:47 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 10:56:39AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:00:07PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > 
> > The long-threatened change for FreeBSD/sparc64 has now been
> > committed.  This changes time_t to be a 64-bit quantity, the
> > same as it is for the AMD64 and IA64 architectures.  People
> > running FreeBSD/sparc64 *will* have to read the UPDATING.64BTT
> > file for instructions on how to safely build and install this
> > change.
> 
> For folks that are already using 64bTT, are any special instructions
> required to going back to following -current (which now has the change
> committed)?

No. Just double-check that the local patch to _types.h doesn't
create a conflict when you sync your tree.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net