From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17566 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2003 22:59:16 -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 17553 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2003 22:59:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.Stanford.EDU) (171.67.16.120) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2003 22:59:15 -0000 Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.19.147]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hAQMxEWm002422 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:59:14 -0800 Received: (qmail 13532 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Nov 2003 22:59:14 -0000 To: config-patches@gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} In-Reply-To: <87r7zvy9q2.fsf@wasabisystems.com> (Ben Elliston's message of "26 Nov 2003 16:33:57 +1100") References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <200311241101.56765.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <87llq5v6ja.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <200311250844.13363.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <87fzgcazbv.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87r7zvy9q2.fsf@wasabisystems.com> From: Russ Allbery Organization: The Eyrie Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87ptfespml.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg01393.txt.bz2 Ben Elliston writes: > My opinion (if it matters) is that we should choose a triplet that > insulates us from marketing types at Sun. sunos5.x seems like a > reasonable choice, but I understand the the change is going to be really > problematic. While this sounds like a good idea to those of us deeply in the know and familiar with the past ten years of Sun operating system history and marketing idiocies, I think the average newcomer, who is mystified by uname output, is going to be really confused by sunos5.x. uname output is pretty much the only place that's used that the average Solaris user would see it, and the term "SunOS" is used in the literature and in on-line discussion pretty much exclusively to refer to SunOS 4.x. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)