From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20125 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2003 21:39:47 -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 19943 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 21:39:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.kloo.net) (63.192.214.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 21:39:46 -0000 Received: by mail.kloo.net (Postfix, from userid 504) id 2C1A33B0308; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:28:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kloo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C1A33B4120; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:28:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:39:00 -0000 From: To: Ben Elliston Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} In-Reply-To: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00209.txt.bz2 On 20 Nov 2003, Ben Elliston wrote: > Paul Eggert has been asking over the course of the last year when > config.{guess,sub} will start to correctly identify Solaris version > numbers. The problem is that config.guess misidentifies Solaris 7, 8, > and 9, and it will probably misidentify Solaris 10 (unless Sun > marketing changes Solaris names again). For example, on a Solaris 8 > box, config.guess outputs "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"; but there never was > and never will be a "Solaris 2.8", as Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) was > immediately followed by Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7). Doesn't uname identify the OS as "SunOS 5.x" ? If so, I don't see a real reason for this change. Toshi