From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29308 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2003 02:03:42 -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 29285 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 02:03:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.73.237.138) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 02:03:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 18370 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 01:59:15 -0000 Received: from dhcp121.icir.org (HELO taltos.codesourcery.com) (zack@192.150.187.121) by mail.codesourcery.com with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 01:59:15 -0000 Received: by taltos.codesourcery.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:59:12 -0800 From: "Zack Weinberg" To: rms@gnu.org Cc: =?iso-8859-4?q?Branko_=C8ibej?= , eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87k75u98bu.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <16317.4758.255402.870324@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <87y8ua7nyl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <16317.12264.979185.14456@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <87ptfm7e7k.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <3FC13184.3020702@xbc.nu> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:28:35 -0500") Message-ID: <87he0rx53j.fsf@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00249.txt.bz2 Richard Stallman writes: > >It seems to me that we should make the change. > >Referring to system versions by the same numbers that > >the publisher uses is a good idea in general. > >It will take a fairly small amount of work to adapt > >a bounded set of GNU packages to this change. > >So we may as well do it. > > > > > What about the thousands of non-GNU packages that use config.guess? > > It's the same basic idea. We never made a commitment to avoid > ever having an incompatible change. I think there's an expectation, though, since incompatible changes have not happened before (at least, I cannot think of any previous incident). I am with Eric on this: config.guess should not change its output in an incompatible fashion. Ever. config.sub should certainly recognize -solaris7+ as equivalent to -solaris2.7+. zw