From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5870 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2003 05:24:12 -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 5855 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2003 05:24:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2003 05:24:11 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBC5OB231893; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:24:11 -0500 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.156]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBC5OA221366; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:24:10 -0500 Received: from livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (aoliva.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.10]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBC5O86m011096; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:24:09 -0500 Received: from livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBC5O7bf009466; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:24:07 -0200 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hBC5O62u009462; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:24:06 -0200 To: Rainer Orth Cc: Paul Eggert , Ben Elliston , "Zack Weinberg" , 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} References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87wu9mt79r.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <871xrs5b9j.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87znegqb31.fsf@codesourcery.com> <87brqsw9d9.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87n0aaj4cl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87ad69rf42.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87y8tsx58e.fsf@codesourcery.com> <8765gwvowl.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87r7zkb6xm.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87llpn0wh4.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <16341.3267.380410.190238@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <16341.3267.380410.190238@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Message-ID: 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: 2003-12/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 On Dec 8, 2003, Rainer Orth wrote: > (c) is clearly the only option, especially since the only gain of change is > consistence with (inherently inconsistent and changing) vendor marketing > whims. You could have made this change in the Solaris 2.0 days, but not > after the current scheme has been in use for 10 years. There's another reason to change from solaris2.10 to something else: to avoid matches on say solaris2.[0-6]* from matching 2.10. Backward-compatibility is not an argument to make it solaris2.10: it *will* expose brokenness. We could do better by using solaris10, since those that use solaris* will still match, and those that use 2.[0-6]* won't inappropriately match. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer