From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30654 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2003 05:34:01 -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 30626 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 05:33:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO namadgi.wasabisystems.com) (203.51.29.104) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 05:33:59 -0000 Received: by namadgi.wasabisystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 43A321EB89; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:33:57 +1100 (EST) To: Paul Eggert Cc: Eric Botcazou , config-patches@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, 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> <200311241101.56765.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <87llq5v6ja.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <200311250844.13363.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <87fzgcazbv.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> From: Ben Elliston Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 05:34:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87fzgcazbv.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: <87r7zvy9q2.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/msg00253.txt.bz2 Paul Eggert writes: > > But were they really affected? I mean, beyond scratching their head for 2 > > minutes after seeing the triplet. > > 2 minutes times 90 students is three hours. And that's just one > class in one quarter at one university. After a while it starts to > add up. We want to encourage newbies, not confuse them. Yes, but the job is perfectly parallelised :-) My opinion (if it matters) is that we should choose a triplet that insulates us from marketing types at Sun. sunos5.x seems like a reasonable choice, but I understand the the change is going to be really problematic. Please keep in mind that I know of system administrators who use config.guess to help set up paths when users log in. Thus, they have /usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ etc. and a change to config.guess' output will cause them a bit of grief. Ben