From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28620 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2003 07:03:34 -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 28566 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 07:03:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) (213.36.80.91) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 07:03:31 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (213.36.54.223) by mail.libertysurf.net (6.5.026) id 3FBB128A006D33DC; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:03:16 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric Botcazou To: Paul Eggert Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:28:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 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 References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <3FC13184.3020702@xbc.nu> <878ym6tgw4.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <878ym6tgw4.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200311240804.22577.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg01245.txt.bz2 > 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