From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4051 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 18:57:35 -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 4038 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 18:57:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 18:57:33 -0000 Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by panther.cs.ucla.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6/UCLACS-5.2) with ESMTP id hAKIvP924241; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMtzZ-0003P4-00; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:57:25 -0800 To: Rainer Orth Cc: Ben Elliston , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:57:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87k75u98bu.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> 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/msg00176.txt.bz2 Rainer Orth writes: > suddenly all packages that could handle all versions of Solaris 2 in > the same way (matching *-*-solaris2*) have to handle *-*-solaris2*, > *-*-solaris[789] and *-*-solaris2.1*. How many programs are actually affected here? I just checked Emacs, which I thought would care, and it doesn't; it treats all versions later than Solaris 2.6 with a *-solaris* pattern. Libtool doesn't seem to care either. A few programs do care: I just checked my collection of sources and found GCC, GDB, Kaffe, OpenSSL, and Tcsh. But I don't think it's much of a maintenance burden to update these few examples. I can propose patches myself for each of these, if that would help assuage fears about this change. (If desirable, these patches could be installed now, before config.guess changes, since they would work with both the old and the new config.guess.) > If one really *must* change something for technical correctness, switch to > *-*-sunos5*, Isn't that change even more intrusive? It would require changing the handling of Solaris 2.0 through 2.6 as well. I agree that in retrospect -sunos5* would have been a better name choice. If the consensus is to switch to -sunos5*, then that's OK with me. But it'll be less work right now to adopt the solution proposed in . Eric Botcazou writes: > What's the rationale...? 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.