64 bit time?

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 1:17 PM +0800 4/28/05, Gallagher, James wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>  > If you did a clean-install of 5.3-release, then it is in your
>>  past.  But if you are running 5.2, and then you cvsup'ed your
>>  /usr/src tree to 5.3, then the switch would be in your future.
>>  You would be running a 5.2.1 system, and reading UPDATING to
>  > find out what tricks were needed to do a source-upgrade to 5.3.
>
>Oh bugger comes to mind :) I didn't read that very well when I
>was setting up 5.3 recently (from ISO, then did a cvsup), so I
>went for 32bit. Will have to do a cleanup op at some point in
>the future.

Hmm.  You might want to do it "sooner" rather than "later".  There
are some parts of the system (such as some ports) which assume you
are running 64-bit time_t if the value for FreeBSD_version is
larger than some value.  (I don't remember the value, but it's
well before the value for 5.3-release).

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