Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

[Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>]

Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:

> > Most of them won't care one way or another, for the same reason that
> > only a tiny fraction of GNU programs care.
> 
> Do you have any numbers backing this statement?

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.

The vast majority of programs don't care about this stuff, as far as I
can tell.


> I tend to think that people compiling sources on Solaris boxes are not 
> newbies.

Hmm, well, I currently have 60 students compiling sources on Solaris
boxes.  They're all Solaris newbies.

Just one data point, I know, but there are still a reasonable number
of Solaris newbies out there.  (I've asked the school to switch to
GNU/Linux; but for various reasons it probably won't happen any time
soon.)


> In the GCC tree, for example, all SunOS-specific files are named
> sol2*.

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.  This is an example of naming confusion
within GCC, but I don't propose to change all that right now.  (One
step at a time.)