Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 9 support

[Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 09:03 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > On 04/16/2014 12:16 PM, Rainer Orth wrote:
> > > * I'm removing the <sys/loadavg.h> check from classpath.  Again, I'm
> > >   uncertain if this is desirable.  In the past, classpath changes were
> > >   merged upstream by one of the libjava maintainers.
> > 
> > We should not diverge from GNU Classpath unless there is a strong reason
> > to do so.
> 
> I think the configure check is mostly harmless, but wouldn't be opposed
> removing it. It really seems to have been added explicitly for Solaris
> 9, which is probably really dead by now. Andrew Hughes, you added it
> back in 2008. Are you still using/building on any Solaris 9 setups?
> 

I vaguely remember adding it. I was building on the university's Solaris 9
machines at the time. They've long since replaced them with GNU/Linux machines
and I've been at Red Hat for over five years, so those days are long gone :)

I have some Freetype fixes to push to Classpath as well, so I'll fix this too
and look at merging to gcj in the not-too-distant future. I think it's long
overdue. Ideally, the change should be left out of this patch, so as to avoid
conflicts.

> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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