From: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Cc: Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
gdb@sources.redhat.com, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8ua7nyl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16317.4758.255402.870324@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
> Either keeping the status quo (solaris2.x) or switching to sunos5.x
> protects you from this marketing nonesense.
It'd be OK with me to switch to sunos5.x, if that's the consensus.
> > It's to avoid unnecessary minor barriers to the use of GNU software on
> > Solaris hosts.
>
> As indicated by what? I've never seen such a complaint before
I was confused myself when the wrong naming convention was originally
introduced. I recall seeing other instances of confusion on several
occasions. It's hard to do a google search to find instances of this
(and I suspect most newbies who get confused figure it out eventually,
and don't send email about it), but I just did a quick google search
and found the following messages indicating some degree of confusion,
or a need to explain it, or whatever. This is the best I can do with
a quick search, but I think the problem is a continuing one for
Solaris and/or GNU novices.
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2001-08/msg00023.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2002-February/009878.html
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=yecwv93tve5.fsf%40king.cts.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=39F5B44B.59267146%40webcom.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=200010041042.DAA65166%40king.cts.com
> I've just checked am-utils, ntp, and pidentd, and all of them are
> affected.
No doubt other programs will be affected too. But these programs are
a relative handful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 21:02 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 [this message]
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
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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