Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 9 support

[Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew@redhat.com> writes:

> ----- 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.

Based on the other Andrew's comment and the knowledge that classpath
(like libgo) lives upstream, I didn't commit that part with the rest of
the patch.

Thanks.
        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University