From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16624 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2018 12:42:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 14328 invoked by uid 89); 17 Oct 2018 12:42:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_SHORT autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=3.4, Hx-languages-length:1446, five, interest X-HELO: smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE Received: from smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (HELO smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) (129.70.160.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:42:48 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09ECCE3C; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:42:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (malfoy.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MBVzH4Zw0Zr2; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:42:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lokon.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (lokon.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.161.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E1F9E3B; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:42:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ro@localhost) by lokon.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (8.15.2+Sun/8.15.2/Submit) id w9HCgi3s009186; Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:42:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Rainer Orth To: Dennis Clarke Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Obsoleting Solaris 10 support References: <35e07e9e-95ac-7341-9a84-5e8a77090226@blastwave.org> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <35e07e9e-95ac-7341-9a84-5e8a77090226@blastwave.org> (Dennis Clarke's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:40:55 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 Hi Dennis, > On 10/16/2018 05:42 AM, Rainer Orth wrote: >> Yesterday I've announced the obsoletion of Solaris 10 support in GCC 9 >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-10/msg00139.html >> >> I believe the same reasons cited there hold for GDB as well. Besides, >> we had some build failures recently that only occured on Solaris 10, >> creating work to support a rapidly dwindling or even vanished user base. >> Therefore, I wonder how best to handle this in GDB. >> > > Looking at the gcc test results for the past few years it looks like > efforts have fallen off a cliff. Certainly I have lost a lot of > interest. I still have reasons to work with Apache and OpenSSL and a > few other places but even those reasons are going away. [...] one reason for that may well be that Oracle has started integrating reasonably recent versions of gcc (and gdb) into Solaris 11, so the need for others to do the work has diminished. > There was considerable activity in the previous five years and I know > that I have been submitting results as far back as 1999 or so. However > the last five years clearly point the direction. Right: it was way different when all you had was the gcc 3.4 in Solaris 10 or some version and Studio cc and go from there yourself ;-) Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University