From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22778 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 09:31:45 -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 22573 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 09:31:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO namadgi.wasabisystems.com) (203.51.27.140) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 09:31:42 -0000 Received: by namadgi.wasabisystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D80D41EB88; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:31:40 +1100 (EST) To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Cc: rms@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu Subject: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} From: Ben Elliston Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00164.txt.bz2 Paul Eggert has been asking over the course of the last year when config.{guess,sub} will start to correctly identify Solaris version numbers. The problem is that config.guess misidentifies Solaris 7, 8, and 9, and it will probably misidentify Solaris 10 (unless Sun marketing changes Solaris names again). For example, on a Solaris 8 box, config.guess outputs "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"; but there never was and never will be a "Solaris 2.8", as Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) was immediately followed by Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7). The time to fix this is now long overdue. Before I do, I want to give plenty of warning to the GNU packages that comprise the toolchain, as these are typically most sensitive to the output of config.guess. Any objections? I have documented the change in a new config/NEWS file that is already committed to subversions.gnu.org. Ben