Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:18:03 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64btt cvsup? Message-ID: <403E709B.3030600@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20040226140242.jdp@polstra.com> References: <XFMail.20040226140242.jdp@polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > OK, that's better than I thought. But what about old executables such > as installed ports? Remember, this thread got started because some > people thought old CVSup binaries worked, and some people thought they > didn't. (We still don't know.) > > What happens to somebody who upgrades to a 64-bit time_t system and > then installs a binary package that was built back in the 32-bit > time_t days? > > Lots of things can go wrong here. > > John You've got to rebuild everything (kernel, work, ports, everything). Or you can ruin your whole day. But surprisingly enough, since I flipped over to 64 bit time_t, I've encountered less problems that I expected. But I'm only using about 25 ports on my sparc box (all of which I rebuilt). Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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