Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

[Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>]

> Most of them won't care one way or another, for the same reason that
> only a tiny fraction of GNU programs care.

Do you have any numbers backing this statement?

> Obviously there are both pros and cons to changing config.guess to use
> correct Sun version numbers.  The people who will be hassled by the
> correction (namely, a handful of maintainers) are more likely to
> complain about it, while the people who will benefit from the
> correction (e.g., newbie installers) don't know what's happening and
> we won't hear from them here.

I tend to think that people compiling sources on Solaris boxes are not 
newbies.

> (If the American Congress were to vote on this issue, the handful of
> special interests would win hands down. Sigh. :-)

I'd rather say: classical tension between experts in a field and the 
non-expert public.  The experts' opinion may sometimes be valuable :-)

> ro didn't favor the proposed change, but suggested that if we change
> it, we should standardize on -sunos uniformly, and use e.g., -sunos5.9
> rather than -solaris9.  That's fine with me, and in fact it's a bit
> cleaner.

But is only marginally clearer for so-called newbies.  And in the GCC tree, 
for example, all SunOS-specific files are named sol2*.

-- 
Eric Botcazou