Back to the Future - 64-bit time_t on sparc64

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:06 PM -0600 2/16/04, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 16, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>>  This is described in a little detail in the UPDATING.64BTT file.
>
>Speaking of which, in that document you mention the problem with
>portupgrade and note that you have a prebuilt package available
>for download.

The issue is 'cvsup', not portupgrade.  My point was that you
should not run 'cvsup' before trying to recompile ports.  That
is partially because the cvsup you *have* (which would be a
32-bTT version of cvsup) will not work until you recompile
it -- so of course you can't run it before recompiling your
ports....

Perhaps I need to come up with better wording for that section.

Also note that if you *do* recompile all of ezm3 and cvsup,
then you will have a 64-bTT version, and that will work okay.

>Is that necessary, or will a portupgrade of portupgrade itself
>generally compile fine (allowing one to use the newly compiled
>version of portupgrade to get the rest of the ports done)?

As noted in the writeup, start out with

    portupgrade -Rr -f portupgrade ruby

and everything should work out okay.

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