From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25072 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2003 09:41:08 -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 25038 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2003 09:41:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO panther.cs.ucla.edu) (131.179.128.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2003 09:41:05 -0000 Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by panther.cs.ucla.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.6/UCLACS-5.2) with ESMTP id hAO9ew906615; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from eggert by penguin.cs.ucla.edu with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AODDF-0005oL-00; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:40:57 -0800 To: Eric Botcazou 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} References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <3FC13184.3020702@xbc.nu> <878ym6tgw4.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <200311240804.22577.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:08:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200311240804.22577.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> Message-ID: <87u14uqf2u.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg01251.txt.bz2 Eric Botcazou writes: > > 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? Only the numbers mentioned on this thread. I think about 10 programs have been mentioned as being affected by this change, most of which are not GNU programs. The vast majority of programs don't care about this stuff, as far as I can tell. > I tend to think that people compiling sources on Solaris boxes are not > newbies. Hmm, well, I currently have 60 students compiling sources on Solaris boxes. They're all Solaris newbies. Just one data point, I know, but there are still a reasonable number of Solaris newbies out there. (I've asked the school to switch to GNU/Linux; but for various reasons it probably won't happen any time soon.) > In the GCC tree, for example, all SunOS-specific files are named > sol2*. Not all SunOS-specific files in GCC are named sol2*. Only files specific to SunOS 5.0 and later have that name. Other files have sunos4* names and suchlike. This is an example of naming confusion within GCC, but I don't propose to change all that right now. (One step at a time.)