Re: 64 bit time_t changes

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Mar 23,  1:16am, he%NetBSD.org@localhost (Havard Eidnes) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t changes

| > | First -- will 5.0 ship with the old libc?  If not, I assume that all
| > | binaries, both pkgsrc and user-written, will have to be recompiled.
| >
| > We will ship with the libc.12 and old binaries will work.
| 
| How will we ship libc.12, and how will we maintain it?  As part of the
| base system build, or as a binary compatibility package out of pkgsrc?
| If the former, I have a couple of other questions I want to ask...

As part of pkgsrc, a binary. Like we did for the a.out libc.12. Building
it will not be supported anymore, since both the headers and the code will
be gone.

christos