From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26909 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2003 19:46:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26901 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2003 19:46:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO spuckler.il.thewrittenword.com) (67.95.107.111) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 19:46:33 -0000 Received: from spuckler.il.thewrittenword.com (localhost.il.thewrittenword.com [127.0.0.1]) by spuckler.il.thewrittenword.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAKJkUne002555; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:46:30 -0600 (CST) Received: (from china@localhost) by spuckler.il.thewrittenword.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id hAKJkUsA002554; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:46:30 -0600 (CST) From: Albert Chin-A-Young Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:00 -0000 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Message-ID: <20031120194630.GA2244@spuckler.il.thewrittenword.com> References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87k75u98bu.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <16317.4758.255402.870324@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16317.4758.255402.870324@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg01122.txt.bz2 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:14:30PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: > Paul Eggert writes: > > > What's the rationale...? > > > > It's to avoid unnecessary minor barriers to the use of GNU software on > > Solaris hosts. config.guess currently uses incorrect version numbers > > for Solaris, and this needlessly confuses new and potential users and > > installers of GNU software on Solaris. > > As indicated by what? I've never seen such a complaint before, and it's > almost never necessary to specify such a configure triplet manually since > it's guessed correctly. Scripts that admins have that depend on config.guess to determine the platform name might break. I don't see this change having any value. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)