From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15786 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2003 23:38:35 -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 15760 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2003 23:38:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO namadgi.wasabisystems.com) (203.51.29.104) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2003 23:38:33 -0000 Received: by namadgi.wasabisystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2D13A1EB8A; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:38:32 +1100 (EST) To: "Zack Weinberg" Cc: Joe Buck , Alexandre Oliva , Paul Eggert , rms@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} References: <871xroqlaf.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87n0aaj4cl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87wu9esxu6.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87ad69rf42.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <87y8tsx58e.fsf@codesourcery.com> <8765gwvowl.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87r7zkb6xm.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <20031204151345.A23762@synopsys.com> <874qwgp3jm.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> From: Ben Elliston Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:41:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <874qwgp3jm.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> Message-ID: <87y8tstapz.fsf@wasabisystems.com> 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: 2003-12/txt/msg00366.txt.bz2 "Zack Weinberg" writes: > I still haven't seen even a weak argument for making any change at > all. So the canonical system names are inconsistent with Sun's > marketing names; why does anyone even care? Some people care because the output of config.guess does not match the well-known name by which that operating system and version are known. This is, admittedly, potentially confusing to newbies who think they are using a Solaris 7 system and config.guess tells them they are using Solaris 2.7. Ben