From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 64744 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2018 22:07:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 64258 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2018 22:07:32 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=servers, contract, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: atl4mhob13.registeredsite.com Received: from atl4mhob13.registeredsite.com (HELO atl4mhob13.registeredsite.com) (209.17.115.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:07:31 +0000 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail02pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob13.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w84M7RwA026582 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 18:07:27 -0400 Received: (qmail 34292 invoked by uid 0); 4 Sep 2018 22:07:27 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 174.118.245.214 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@174.118.245.214) by 0 with ESMTPA; 4 Sep 2018 22:07:27 -0000 Subject: Re: Solaris 11 buildbots To: Rainer Orth Cc: gdb@sourceware.org References: <343230be-a5e8-78c9-5942-58b9067af6f6@blastwave.org> <2daf71d4-ae82-eebb-2a43-eee61f01819b@blastwave.org> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:07:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On 09/04/2018 05:42 PM, Rainer Orth wrote: > Hi Dennis, > >>> true, but I happen to have an S7 available for testing. I simply can't >>> afford buildbots for older Solaris 11 updates, especially given that >>> Solaris 11.3 support will end in the relatively near future. >> >> hrmmm .. yes, I still have S10 systems running on contract and I think >> 'support' will exist for a long long time. At least in the form of >> security updates. As for 11.4? Well I'll neet a Netra T4 it seems. > > unfortunately not. As explained here > > https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-10-support-explained > https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/solaris-10-extended-support-patches-patchsets-released > > beyond January 2018 Solaris 10 support requires a special contract right, I have that. $$$ > And even so, support will only last until 2021, at > which point at the very latest I'll stop supporting Solaris 10 in gcc > (and accordingly gdb). Yep .. it is getting to be like Solaris 2.5.1 where it just ran and ran and ran and it was all over the place and it ran and servers were left untouched for years running and running and ... you get the point. Then they jumped to Solaris 8 and repeat the same process. > Support or no, dealing with Solaris 10 has often been only a nuisance in > recent gcc work; all the more reason to get rid of it in the not too > distant future. I have done reasonable builds of 8.1.0 but can't seem to find the motivation to look at anymore. Dennis