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

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Fri Dec 5 04:50:00 GMT 2003 
Ben Elliston <bje@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> Some people care because the output of config.guess does not match the
> well-known name by which that operating system and version are known.
> This is, admittedly, potentially confusing to newbies who think they are
> using a Solaris 7 system and config.guess tells them they are using
> Solaris 2.7.

I've got to say that this is rather unlikely to confuse anyone who's been
administering Solaris for any length of time.  Heck, every Solaris admin
that I know personally called Solaris 7 Solaris 2.7 instead, and Solaris
2.8 wasn't at all uncommon.

It's just the actual Solaris version with "2." prepended.  I don't think
it's going to confuse anyone too badly, and it's the sort of confusion
that's pretty readily remedied.

(Oh, and please, don't make any version of Solaris identify itself as
"sunos" anything.  That would break every Autoconf script I have that
cares about Solaris as a platform.  -solaris10 wouldn't break nearly as
much.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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