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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
> > But were they really affected? I mean, beyond scratching their head for 2
> > minutes after seeing the triplet.
>
> 2 minutes times 90 students is three hours. And that's just one
> class in one quarter at one university. After a while it starts to
> add up. We want to encourage newbies, not confuse them.
Yes, but the job is perfectly parallelised :-)
My opinion (if it matters) is that we should choose a triplet that
insulates us from marketing types at Sun. sunos5.x seems like a
reasonable choice, but I understand the the change is going to be
really problematic.
Please keep in mind that I know of system administrators who use
config.guess to help set up paths when users log in. Thus, they have
/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ etc. and a change to config.guess'
output will cause them a bit of grief.
Ben