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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:05:00 -0000
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Cc: Rainer Orth <ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>,
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> It's to avoid unnecessary minor barriers to the use of GNU software on
> Solaris hosts.  config.guess currently uses incorrect version numbers
> for Solaris, and this needlessly confuses new and potential users and
> installers of GNU software on Solaris.

What's the point in exchanging a minor barrier for a major maintainance 
problem?

-- 
Eric Botcazou