From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17038 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2003 20:46:57 -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 16931 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 20:46:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 20:46:55 -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 hAOKkY910383; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:46:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AONbN-0001CY-00; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:46:33 -0800 To: Eric Botcazou Cc: config-patches@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, brane@xbc.nu Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <200311240804.22577.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <87u14uqf2u.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <200311241101.56765.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:46:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200311241101.56765.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> Message-ID: <87llq5v6ja.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/msg00230.txt.bz2 Eric Botcazou writes: > > Only the numbers mentioned on this thread. I think about 10 programs > > have been mentioned as being affected by this change, most of which > > are not GNU programs. > > Are you sure they are the only ones? No: on the contrary, I expect that there are a few more. However, it's still the case that only a very small number of programs are affected, compared to the hundreds (or thousands?) of programs that use config.guess and config.sub. > > Hmm, well, I currently have 60 students compiling sources on Solaris > > boxes. They're all Solaris newbies. > > Did they run into the 'minor barrier'? Not this academic quarter; they're using Python, which isn't affected. However, in past quarters I have had them build GCC, so they were affected. (Others in my department think I'm crazy to have undergraduates look inside GCC; they prefer to teach with toy compilers. But I digress....) > > Not all SunOS-specific files in GCC are named sol2*. Only files > > specific to SunOS 5.0 and later have that name. Other files have > > sunos4* names and suchlike. > > I don't see any in the mainline sources. Ah, OK, you must be referring to the current CVS, which has ripped out support for SunOS 4 and earlier. I was referring to the latest stable version, GCC 3.3.2, which still has some files with sunos4* names. But at any rate this discrepancy is a minor one, as I'm not proposing to rename all those files right now.