Hi cavac, thanks for the reply. You raised good questions. I'd like to get a couple more years use out of this laptop but I see that I could run into problems.

You wrote:
  >You are using a 32bit operating system. These have all kinds of limitations. Including that your OS (or major libraries installed in it) potentially still use 32bit timestamps. Or use a mix of 32/64 bit timestamps, which certainly could explain some of the problems if your filesystem timestamp bitsize mismatches Perl.

It's a bit strange because I similarly "renovated" an older laptop a few months ago with a fresh OS install (the last Debian available for 32-bit machines, 4.19) and didn't see any test failures like these when I built perl and modules, that machine runs a 32-bit AMD processor and the machine in question here runs an Intel i5.

  >What filesystem are you running on?

I'm using the ext4 filesystem.

Although probably based on Squeeze as you say, this machine actually got Linux Mint (LMDE) installed on it. Mint seems to be supporting 32-bit boxes long than Debian themselves.

Thanks again for your time and attention and suggestions.

Mar 05, 2025 at 19:46 UTC

In reply to Re^2: Perl release v5.40.1 on a 32-bit box showing failed tests for atime and ctime in Time::HiRes by Intrepid
in thread Perl release v5.40.1 on a 32-bit box showing failed tests for atime and ctime in Time::HiRes by Intrepid

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