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

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Mon Dec 8 13:25:00 GMT 2003 
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> 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

This is completely premature: Sun employees are currently (e.g. during all
talks on the Sun Network Conference in Berlin) very careful to only talk
about `Solaris Next', since the real name of the beast is not yet clear.
So we cannot change to *-*-solaris10 until the product is released.  At
that time, the will be a considerable number of packages supporting SunOS
5.10 in various ways (I've personally contributed to GCC, am-utils, and
ntp), and all of them would have to change again to accomodate the new
name.  This is a completely unnecessary waste of effort, as is this whole
discussion.

Fortunately, nobody so far proposed to change alpha*-dec-osf* to
alpha*-compaq-osf* to alpha*-compaq-tru64* to alpha*-hp-tru64*... to match
Compaq purchasing DEC, the O/S name change and the Compaq/HP merger (and
Paul Eggert doesn't seem to be using the platform to worry about this ;-).
As you can clearly see from this example, the proposed change is utterly
absurd.

	Rainer
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