HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Wed Mar 10 10:00:12 PST 2004


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.

This only effects freebsd-current, of course.  Later we'll have
to decide the best upgrade method for people who make the jump
from RELENG_5_2 to the upcoming RELENG_5_3.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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