From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>,
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>,
rms@gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vfownoam.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y8tstapz.fsf@wasabisystems.com> (Ben Elliston's message of "05 Dec 2003 10:38:32 +1100")
Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> Some people care because the output of config.guess does not match the
> well-known name by which that operating system and version are known.
> This is, admittedly, potentially confusing to newbies who think they
> are using a Solaris 7 system and config.guess tells them they are
> using Solaris 2.7.
Okay, but I can't countenance that as justification for any kind of
incompatible change, not even one that only changes behavior for as
yet unreleased versions of Solaris. (People have already written
configure scripts that expect Solaris 10 will be identified as
*-sun-solaris2.10.)
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 9:31 Ben Elliston
2003-11-20 11:34 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-20 14:12 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 18:57 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-20 19:14 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 19:46 ` Albert Chin-A-Young
2003-11-20 21:02 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-20 21:19 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-21 0:33 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-21 0:44 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-22 21:28 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-23 22:13 ` Branko Čibej
2003-11-24 6:33 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-24 7:03 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-24 9:41 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-24 10:01 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-24 20:46 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-25 7:46 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-25 21:55 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-26 5:25 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-26 5:34 ` Ben Elliston
2003-11-26 22:59 ` Russ Allbery
2003-11-25 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-26 2:03 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-20 21:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-20 21:15 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 22:27 ` Phil Edwards
2003-11-21 21:39 ` tm_gccmail
2003-11-21 21:45 ` Joe Buck
2003-11-27 10:50 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-28 23:22 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-29 0:25 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-01 20:50 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-01 21:29 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-02 21:29 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-02 21:40 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-02 22:08 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-03 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 17:22 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-03 17:26 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-04 7:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 8:00 ` Branko Čibej
2003-12-05 17:26 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-05 17:53 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 18:44 ` Joe Buck
2003-12-06 11:31 ` Nix
2003-12-07 23:04 ` Branko Čibej
2003-12-04 10:11 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 10:49 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-04 21:37 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-04 21:53 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 23:00 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-04 23:04 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-04 23:15 ` Joe Buck
2003-12-04 23:27 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 23:38 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-04 23:41 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2003-12-05 11:44 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-06 5:20 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-06 20:37 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-06 21:16 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-07 9:15 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-07 9:45 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-07 19:20 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 4:50 ` Russ Allbery
2003-12-05 11:46 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-08 13:25 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-08 22:35 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-08 23:44 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-08 23:51 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-10 0:03 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-12 5:24 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-12 5:38 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-12 21:26 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-05 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 14:16 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-02 22:47 Wolfgang Bangerth
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