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Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: tm_gccmail at kloo dot net
- Cc: Ben Elliston <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, rms at gnu dot org, eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:45:24 -0800
- Subject: Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
- References: <8765hf4c8z.fsf@wasabisystems.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0311211327170.31739-100000@mail.kloo.net>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:28:13PM -0800, tm_gccmail@kloo.net wrote:
> Doesn't uname identify the OS as "SunOS 5.x" ?
Yes, for Solaris 8 we get, for example,
SunOS capulet 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
However, Sun has never used "Solaris 2.8" to identify such systems.
> If so, I don't see a real reason for this change.
I think that we should just document the current behavior and move on.
It can be confusing, but there are higher priority issues.