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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
- Cc: config-patches at gnu dot org,rms at gnu dot org,ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de,bje at wasabisystems dot com,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,gdb at sources dot redhat dot com,brane at xbc dot nu
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:05:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <3FC13184.3020702@xbc.nu> <878ym6tgw4.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
> 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*.
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Eric Botcazou