Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

[Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com>]

Rainer Orth wrote:
> 
> > ... In this already mutilated case, history needs to prevail:
> >
> >   osrev=solaris`uname -r | sed 's/^5\.//'`
> >
> > and if "uname -r" stops prefixing its output with that weirdo "5."
> > thingey, then the version will start being whatever "uname -r"
> > says it is.
> 
> But this change would be weirder than anything else suggested so far: you
> get solaris5.1 for SunOS 5.5.1/Solaris 2.5.1, and any matching on solaris2*
> would be gone.

Yep.  Write that off to a typo, sorry:

> >   osrev=solaris`uname -r | sed 's/^5\./2./'`

> If we really want to follow uname, than go for sunos`uname -r` which will
> remain valid (and recognizable at least by non-newbies) for the forseeable
> future.  But again, this gives tons of maintainers absurd maintenance
> hazzles for minimal value.

If "uname -r" stops prefixing the version with "5.", then it has
changed enough for maintainers to take some note.  I think, anyway.  :)