[Cialug] BSD Issue

Jonathan A. Kollasch jakllsch at kollasch.net
Thu Oct 1 12:00:36 CDT 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:53:22AM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> All right folks, .. need to noodle a little:
> 
> Apparently OpenBSD 5.5+ uses an 8-byte time_t for all architectures, which
> breaks a LOT of i386 packages.
> 
> Has anyone dealt with this and found a workaround?

NetBSD has had 64-bit time_t for even longer (Since NetBSD 6.0).
There are plenty of patches in pkgsrc relating to this.

	Jonathan Kollasch


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