From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25178 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2003 04:37:24 -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 25153 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2003 04:37:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2003 04:37:24 -0000 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AOUoV-0006BZ-2L; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:28:35 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= CC: eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU, ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <3FC13184.3020702@xbc.nu> (message from =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= on Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:15:32 +0100) Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Reply-to: rms@gnu.org 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> <87ptfm7e7k.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <3FC13184.3020702@xbc.nu> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:37:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00234.txt.bz2 >It seems to me that we should make the change. >Referring to system versions by the same numbers that >the publisher uses is a good idea in general. >It will take a fairly small amount of work to adapt >a bounded set of GNU packages to this change. >So we may as well do it. > > What about the thousands of non-GNU packages that use config.guess? It's the same basic idea. We never made a commitment to avoid ever having an incompatible change.