time64 & LFS for 32-bit arches (Re: [gentoo-dev] Arch Status and Future Plans)

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hi all, this will be a long mail, and might be confusing, I'll try to
> organize it, but this is a mess, so bear with me.
>
> ======== 32-bit arches ========
>
> This includes stable arches x86, arm, ppc, sparc32, dev arches s390, and
> maybe more. Those are in much worse situation, with a mess on various
> fronts, some of them super hard to continue support. For example
> qtwebengine is less and less likely to manage to compile on a
> real-hardware, and not 32-bit chroot on 64-bit host. Arch Team want to
> minimize our work on those arches, meaning mass-destable and even
> mass-dekeyword, with potentially full drop of stable status.
>

We haven't yet migrated to 64-bit time_t (and off_t - Large File
Support/LFS) which will fix a lot of general test failures.

Doing that before making any decision has value in two ways:
1) It might make the situation a lot better, who knows?

2) Even if we do then do a mass purge after, it leaves users on such
platforms in a good state to keep stabilisation until after we're done,
to help find any possible issues.

dilfridge is currently beginning the time64 prep work (it requires LFS
too).

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