From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17842 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2003 00:33:31 -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 17808 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 00:33:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 00:33:30 -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 hAL0XJ922744; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMzEd-0003am-00; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:33:19 -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> <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> From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <16317.12264.979185.14456@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Message-ID: <87ptfm7e7k.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/msg00184.txt.bz2 Rainer Orth writes: > A continued burden which removes clarity from those scripts, Using -sunos5* would not remove clarity from scripts, as it's just as clear as -solaris2*. And it would not be a continued burden, as it's just a one-time conversion for a relatively small number of packages. > in exchange for a little less newby confusion It is a tradeoff between maintainer convenience and newbie convenience. The easiest thing for maintainers is to do nothing, and continue to confuse novices in this minor way. (After all, we've invented our own nonstandard jargon that works for us, and if it confuses novices then that's their problem. :-)