From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Cc: config-patches@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de,
bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com,
brane@xbc.nu
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311240804.22577.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ym6tgw4.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
> Most of them won't care one way or another, for the same reason that
> only a tiny fraction of GNU programs care.
Do you have any numbers backing this statement?
> Obviously there are both pros and cons to changing config.guess to use
> correct Sun version numbers. The people who will be hassled by the
> correction (namely, a handful of maintainers) are more likely to
> complain about it, while the people who will benefit from the
> correction (e.g., newbie installers) don't know what's happening and
> we won't hear from them here.
I tend to think that people compiling sources on Solaris boxes are not
newbies.
> (If the American Congress were to vote on this issue, the handful of
> special interests would win hands down. Sigh. :-)
I'd rather say: classical tension between experts in a field and the
non-expert public. The experts' opinion may sometimes be valuable :-)
> ro didn't favor the proposed change, but suggested that if we change
> it, we should standardize on -sunos uniformly, and use e.g., -sunos5.9
> rather than -solaris9. That's fine with me, and in fact it's a bit
> cleaner.
But is only marginally clearer for so-called newbies. And in the GCC tree,
for example, all SunOS-specific files are named sol2*.
--
Eric Botcazou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-24 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 12:25 Ben Elliston
2003-11-20 14:03 ` Ben Elliston
2003-11-20 14:12 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-20 18:29 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 20:31 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-20 20:35 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 20:50 ` Albert Chin-A-Young
2003-11-20 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-20 21:44 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-21 0:57 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-21 1:15 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-23 12:51 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-23 23:40 ` Branko Čibej
2003-11-24 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-24 8:28 ` Eric Botcazou [this message]
2003-11-24 12:08 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-24 14:35 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-24 21:54 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-25 10:47 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-25 23:12 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-26 6:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-26 12:05 ` Ben Elliston
2003-11-27 1:58 ` Russ Allbery
2003-11-25 10:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-26 3:49 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-20 21:33 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-11-20 21:40 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 23:32 ` Phil Edwards
2003-11-21 23:56 ` tm_gccmail
2003-11-22 0:01 ` Joe Buck
2003-11-27 18:55 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-29 1:42 ` Paul Eggert
2003-11-29 2:24 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-01 21:29 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-01 22:09 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-02 21:40 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-02 21:45 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-02 22:21 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-03 17:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-03 17:23 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-03 17:33 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-04 7:42 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 8:57 ` Branko Čibej
2003-12-05 17:27 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-05 18:43 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 18:53 ` Joe Buck
2003-12-06 12:11 ` Nix
2003-12-07 23:22 ` Branko Čibej
2003-12-04 10:16 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 11:16 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-04 21:41 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-04 22:07 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 23:04 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-04 23:11 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-04 23:27 ` Joe Buck
2003-12-04 23:38 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-04 23:41 ` Ben Elliston
2003-12-04 23:42 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 11:46 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-06 7:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-06 20:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-06 21:56 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-07 9:25 ` Arnaud Charlet
2003-12-07 15:26 ` Eric Botcazou
2003-12-07 19:25 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-05 5:00 ` Russ Allbery
2003-12-05 12:37 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-08 13:29 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-08 22:44 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-08 23:48 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-08 23:59 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-10 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2003-12-12 5:30 ` Alexandre Oliva
2003-12-12 7:19 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-12-12 21:27 ` Rainer Orth
2003-12-05 23:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-12-04 14:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-20 21:55 bkorb
2003-11-20 23:24 ` Rainer Orth
2003-11-20 23:52 ` Bruce Korb
2003-12-02 22:58 Wolfgang Bangerth
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