From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wu9mt79r.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> (Ben Elliston's message of "20 Nov 2003 20:31:40 +1100")
Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> Paul Eggert has been asking over the course of the last year when
> config.{guess,sub} will start to correctly identify Solaris version
> numbers. The problem is that config.guess misidentifies Solaris 7, 8,
> and 9, and it will probably misidentify Solaris 10 (unless Sun
> marketing changes Solaris names again). For example, on a Solaris 8
> box, config.guess outputs "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"; but there never was
> and never will be a "Solaris 2.8", as Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) was
> immediately followed by Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7).
I'm reiterating what I said way downthread in a more prominent
location because (a) it is buried, and (b) having reflected for 24
hours I now feel much more strongly about the issue.
THE OUTPUT OF CONFIG.GUESS MUST NOT EVER CHANGE.
EVEN IF IT IS WRONG.
It is, however, perfectly fine and in fact desirable for config.sub to
recognize sparc-solaris7 as equivalent to sparc-sun-solaris2.7.
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-27 10:50 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
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 [this message]
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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