On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 6:51 AM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > FWIW, yocto/openembedded have also done the same and offered a distro > > setting to the users > > to select 32bit time_t if they wished to but defaulted to 64bit time_t. > > In case of Openembedded, which (as far as I understand) mostly offers > complete system images for download or build, I might have done that > similarly at the start - this is a different situation.
OpenEmbedded and Gentoo are alike in some respects, they are source based distributions with some pre-builts, I thought it must be easier for gentoo compared to binary distros. > > That said, nothing would keep you from trivially still switching the CHOST > in case of enabled 64bit time_t, to be able to keep the two variants apart. > it does have impact on OE when packages ( configure ) start depending upon these new tuples for enabled/disabling stuff. > -- > Andreas K. Hüttel > dilfri...@gentoo.org > Gentoo Linux developer > (council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
