From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21412 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2003 21:28:04 -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 21381 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2003 21:28:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2003 21:28:03 -0000 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ANfAC-0003Ec-4D; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 16:19:32 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: Paul Eggert CC: ro@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de, bje@wasabisystems.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <87ptfm7e7k.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on 20 Nov 2003 16:33:19 -0800) Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub} Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <87k75u98bu.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <16317.4758.255402.870324@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <87y8ua7nyl.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <16317.12264.979185.14456@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <87ptfm7e7k.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:51:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg01213.txt.bz2 It seems to me that we should make the change. Referring to system versions by the same numbers that the publisher uses is a good idea in general. It will take a fairly small amount of work to adapt a bounded set of GNU packages to this change. So we may as well do it.