From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Solaris 11 buildbots
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edd6198c-6ac8-80ea-7077-c457439637b4@blastwave.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ydd1sa9vt1l.fsf@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
On 09/04/2018 05:42 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
>>> true, but I happen to have an S7 available for testing. I simply can't
>>> afford buildbots for older Solaris 11 updates, especially given that
>>> Solaris 11.3 support will end in the relatively near future.
>>
>> hrmmm .. yes, I still have S10 systems running on contract and I think
>> 'support' will exist for a long long time. At least in the form of
>> security updates. As for 11.4? Well I'll neet a Netra T4 it seems.
>
> unfortunately not. As explained here
>
> https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-10-support-explained
> https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/solaris-10-extended-support-patches-patchsets-released
>
> beyond January 2018 Solaris 10 support requires a special contract
right, I have that. $$$
> And even so, support will only last until 2021, at
> which point at the very latest I'll stop supporting Solaris 10 in gcc
> (and accordingly gdb).
Yep .. it is getting to be like Solaris 2.5.1 where it just ran and ran
and ran and it was all over the place and it ran and servers were left
untouched for years running and running and ... you get the point. Then
they jumped to Solaris 8 and repeat the same process.
> Support or no, dealing with Solaris 10 has often been only a nuisance in
> recent gcc work; all the more reason to get rid of it in the not too
> distant future.
I have done reasonable builds of 8.1.0 but can't seem to find the
motivation to look at anymore.
Dennis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-04 19:43 Rainer Orth
2018-09-04 19:55 ` Dennis Clarke
2018-09-04 20:33 ` Rainer Orth
2018-09-04 21:28 ` Dennis Clarke
2018-09-04 21:42 ` Rainer Orth
2018-09-04 22:07 ` Dennis Clarke [this message]
2018-09-05 8:03 ` Rainer Orth
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