64 bit time?

[Gallagher, James]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih at rpi.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:46 AM
> To: Gallagher, James; Chuck Robey; sparc64 at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: 64 bit time?
> 
> 
> 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).
> 
In case anyone is/was interested in how this turned out. It went well with
the exception of php4 which may have suffered during my portupgrade fun. No
problems on the rebuild, machine came up fine afterwards and was able to
follow UPDATING.64bit without problems. 

James