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

["Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:04:38PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> I like the approach, but I think we'd be better off using solaris10
>> for Solaris 10/SunOS 5.10, just because then solaris* would still
>> match.  Solaris 10 is more like Solaris 2+ than SunOS 4, which most
>> sunos* matches would get.  At which point, we could probably do
>> without the preference switches.
>
> Agreed; if we are going to make a change, it should preserve "solaris"
> and abandon the "sunos".

I still haven't seen even a weak argument for making any change at
all.  So the canonical system names are inconsistent with Sun's
marketing names; why does anyone even care?

zw