Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng

2016-07-17 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:07 PM, wrote: > I don't know if this is on topic. Is it possible to backport 64-bit > date/time to uclibc-ng in 32-bit mode? 32-bit date runs between late > 1901 and early 2038. 2038 is not that far away. E.g. in a 32-bit VM... This seems

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng

2016-07-16 Thread waltdnes
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 01:02:42PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote > I welcome comment on any of the above. I don't know if this is on topic. Is it possible to backport 64-bit date/time to uclibc-ng in 32-bit mode? 32-bit date runs between late 1901 and early 2038. 2038 is not that far away.

[gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng

2016-07-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, Most of you know that uclibc upstream is pretty much dead. There hasn't been a official release since 2012 and there hasn't been a commit to their master branch for over a year. The situation has become impossible since important fixes really can't be backported without layers of