From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23336 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2003 21:45:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 23291 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 21:45:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piper.synopsys.com) (198.182.56.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 21:45:30 -0000 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hALLjOt16655; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:45:24 -0800 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:45:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: tm_gccmail@kloo.net Cc: Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Message-ID: <20031121134524.A16612@synopsys.com> References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from tm_gccmail@kloo.net on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:28:13PM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00210.txt.bz2 On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:28:13PM -0800, tm_gccmail@kloo.net wrote: > Doesn't uname identify the OS as "SunOS 5.x" ? Yes, for Solaris 8 we get, for example, SunOS capulet 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 However, Sun has never used "Solaris 2.8" to identify such systems. > If so, I don't see a real reason for this change. I think that we should just document the current behavior and move on. It can be confusing, but there are higher priority issues.