From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10010 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2014 09:04:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9947 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2014 09:04:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE Received: from snape.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (HELO smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) (129.70.160.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:04:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9C0419; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:04:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (malfoy.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id a-w4lS2o9Iss; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lokon.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (lokon.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE [129.70.161.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-relay.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78EF1415; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ro@localhost) by lokon.CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (8.14.7+Sun/8.14.7/Submit) id s3N94ATC002726; Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:04:10 +0200 (MEST) From: Rainer Orth To: Andrew Hughes Cc: Mark Wielaard , Andrew Haley , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, classpath@gnu.org, java-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Andrew Hughes Subject: Re: Remove obsolete Solaris 9 support References: <53522DED.3060707@redhat.com> <1398172946.29199.171.camel@bordewijk.wildebeest.org> <114514502.8047671.1398179924852.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:04:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <114514502.8047671.1398179924852.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (Andrew Hughes's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:18:44 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2014-q2/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 Andrew Hughes 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 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University