From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13651 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 21:02:50 -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 13463 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 21:02:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 21:02:48 -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 hAKL2g903498; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMvwo-0003Q4-00; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:02:42 -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> From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <16317.4758.255402.870324@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Message-ID: <87y8ua7nyl.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/msg00179.txt.bz2 Rainer Orth writes: > Either keeping the status quo (solaris2.x) or switching to sunos5.x > protects you from this marketing nonesense. It'd be OK with me to switch to sunos5.x, if that's the consensus. > > It's to avoid unnecessary minor barriers to the use of GNU software on > > Solaris hosts. > > As indicated by what? I've never seen such a complaint before I was confused myself when the wrong naming convention was originally introduced. I recall seeing other instances of confusion on several occasions. It's hard to do a google search to find instances of this (and I suspect most newbies who get confused figure it out eventually, and don't send email about it), but I just did a quick google search and found the following messages indicating some degree of confusion, or a need to explain it, or whatever. This is the best I can do with a quick search, but I think the problem is a continuing one for Solaris and/or GNU novices. http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2001-08/msg00023.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2002-February/009878.html http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=yecwv93tve5.fsf%40king.cts.com http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=39F5B44B.59267146%40webcom.com http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200010041042.DAA65166%40king.cts.com > I've just checked am-utils, ntp, and pidentd, and all of them are > affected. No doubt other programs will be affected too. But these programs are a relative handful.