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

Rainer Orth ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Fri Dec 12 21:26:00 GMT 2003 
Alexandre Oliva writes:

> There's another reason to change from solaris2.10 to something else:
> to avoid matches on say solaris2.[0-6]* from matching 2.10.
> Backward-compatibility is not an argument to make it solaris2.10: it
> *will* expose brokenness.  We could do better by using solaris10,
> since those that use solaris* will still match, and those that use
> 2.[0-6]* won't inappropriately match.

But as I wrote before, solaris10 will likely be wrong by the time SunOS
5.10 is released, because it will probably be called otherwise.

Just stay with solaris2.* and be done with this nonsense (and discussion).

	Rainer
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